Photos of your charging setup!

[Luminous]

I'll jump in here. Photo from a few months back. More lights, RC stuff, and battery packs these days. Solar charge controller upper right into four 6V 225ah deep cycles (in the coolers vented outside). That Skycharger 6200 clamps onto the lower pure sine inverter. This system also runs the TV, lamps, and the laptop upstairs.

[duro]

@benckie

Here is mine, one charger does all !

Charger

Power supply

I have a box with just about every lead and adaptor you can think of for charging or discharging just about any thing, the only thing that limit,s you with hobby chargers, is your imagination as you can make any lead or adaptor to charge any type of battery and places like hobby king sell leads dirt cheap that normaly just need a quick mod to suit your plugs.

I like to balance charge 6 x 18650,s

A link on hobby chargers it has some pic,s of a bit of some of the leads i use most oftern starting at post number 47

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/1621

A link to my 18650 balance charging thread

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/3118

The links save me posting a few pictures

I'm lost...wait...how do you connect multiple leads to the batteries again?? Forgive me, I'm a noob...

[viktori]

@Luminous

I'll jump in here. Photo from a few months back. More lights, RC stuff, and battery packs these days. Solar charge controller upper right into four 6V 225ah deep cycles (in the coolers vented outside). That Skycharger 6200 clamps onto the lower pure sine inverter. This system also runs the TV, lamps, and the laptop upstairs.

Did you assemble the solar system yourself? Do you have any good links on that subject?

Viktor

[Price]

Magnets

@duro

I'm lost...wait...how do you connect multiple leads to the batteries again?? Forgive me, I'm a noob...

[benckie]

Yep

[viktori]

More info about alternative power sources here:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/6482

and here:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/6482#comment-123495

Viktor

[Dimitrioptimus]

What will be best balanced Charger? to charge all types of cells ranging from Lead Acid,Nicd,Nimh,Lion,Lipo etc,& still is cheap reliable & has a good lifetime

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=6792 (Is this Genuine ?)

Radio Control Planes, Drones, Cars, FPV, Quadcopters and more - Hobbyking

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__5548__IMAX_B6_Charger_Discharger_1_6_Cells_GENUINE_.html

If u have other suggestion then or experience with these charger then plz share,

Is it safe to purchase from Hobby King ?

[atbglenn]

@Dimitrioptimus

What will be best balanced Charger? to charge all types of cells ranging from Lead Acid,Nicd,Nimh,Lion,Lipo etc,& still is cheap reliable & has a good lifetime

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=6792 (Is this Genuine ?)

Radio Control Planes, Drones, Cars, FPV, Quadcopters and more - Hobbyking

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__5548__IMAX_B6_Charger_Discharger_1_6_Cells_GENUINE_.html

If u have other suggestion then or experience with these charger then plz share,

Is it safe to purchase from Hobby King ?

I purchased this from Hobby King's USA warehouse for around $30 shipped. So far I'm very pleased with it.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=18066

[benckie]

I like the ichargers sold at hobby king

[Dimitrioptimus]

Thankx Benkie,

plz see

balance charging 18650's / 26650's

here is a 2s balance charge lead set up for 18650's i had to cut the springs in the battery boxes as they are for none protected cells and I'm using protected cells so to get them to fit i had to remove the spring and reverse the polarity of the battery boxes (run the batteries the other way round) i have also made some singular ones for protected cells and use red heat shrink to cover the black wires and black heat shrink to cover the red wires so there is no confusion witch way the battery goe…

[benckie]

@Dimitrioptimus

Thankx Benkie,

plz see

balance charging 18650's / 26650's

I see and i gave a saterday morning replie lols

[budynabuick]

@aoyue2702

How much did that fluke multimeter run you Glenn?

Don"t know how much that one is, but my son just bought one for about $900.00. YIKES!!! BTW, I have a C-9000 and MH0401fs for my batts.

Keith

[atbglenn]

Here's my latest charging setup. It's a work in progress. (Not show are the Maha C9000, Lacrosse 9009, Xtar WP2 and MP2)

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[MRsDNF]

Nice set up there. How does the icharger and the Turnigy compare?

[atbglenn]

@MRsDNF

Nice set up there. How does the icharger and the Turnigy compare?

Thanks I got the iCharger yesterday so I'm not that familiar with it yet. Right off the bat I'd say it's more accurate. Has many features the Turnigy doesn't have. The Turnigy is really nice for the money. $30 vs $90 for the iCharger.

[Extra_Bright]

You said “budget”, right?

$7 bucks on The Bay.

But I’ll be upgrading it soon :bigsmile:

upgrade complete

and the DMM

[humppa]

Found a safe use for the WP2

[atbglenn]

Bumping an old thread...

Not shown are a few other chargers and batteries that are already in use

[1nterceptor]

I’m still using the same DSD charger I got about two and a half
years ago. I got it for less than US$7; just wanted to try 18650
flashlights at the time. It still works; but sometimes I have to
wiggle the connector to the main unit to get it to charge.

DSD 18650 BATTERY CHARGER REVIEW

DSD 18650 BATTERY CHARGER REVIEW

[alfreddajero]

Here is mine……