Which Battery Charger?

This is great info - you have been most helpful.

In the end I decided to get the highly-rated GYRFALCON All-44 and All-88 chargers, from GearBest, here.

The Danish reviewer you recommended has detailed performance graphs. Importantly, it has a display for each cell, showing voltage and current.
 
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sajunky said:
Cut USB cable on the far-end side, usually +5V is a red wire and ground is black and solder to the board. On the battery side two magnets will attach electrical wires to the battery, but there are non-magnetic batteries too. Be careful of polarity, thats all, you have a cheap quality charger. :)
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Brilliant plan for temporary connections, thanks.
 
Arthur said:
This is great info - you have been most helpful.

In the end I decided to get the highly-rated GYRFALCON All-44 and All-88 chargers, from GearBest, here.

The Danish reviewer you recommended has detailed performance graphs. Importantly, it has a display for each cell, showing voltage and current.
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I would buy it if it ran MAC OS, not a crappy Windows. ;)

Seriously, if I had to charge batteries couple times a day like modeling enhusiasts do, I would use perfect charger. For regular use (few times a month), many chargers reviewed here do perfect job for around $5.
 
I can't directly answer your question. But... I cant recommend La Crosse chargers, Mine died after less than a year. While it still works the display has rendered the supposed benefits useless. It now serves as a slow charger only since I can't tell what the settings are. It never did what I hoped and what it was supposed to do, namely restore rechargeable batteries. Long story - short version... Way over priced and fails to do what is said it will do. You want a slow charger > 6 hours to reduce the chance of batteries being destroyed by fast charge heat.
 
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kaufen said:
You want a slow charger > 6 hours to reduce the chance of batteries being destroyed by fast charge heat.
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I agree. Slow charging reduce stress on the battery (CC is longer and CV is shorter, which is important for battery life). In fact, if you charge for 5 hours (i.e. with current 0.2C), you don't really need stage CV at all, after finishing stage CC; the battery is already charged 95%.
 
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I don't have the scopes and meters anymore to check out charger performance.

Everything I've read seems to suggest that most cheapy chargers out there are actually "battery destroyers" and should be avoided like the plague.

I don't want to unnecessarily put at risk expensive Li-ion and Eneloop NiMH AAs ... that defeats the whole reason for using rechargeables.
 
How about the Nitecore Digicharger D4? I'm using one for my 18650's, but it'll also do AAA & AA for my remotes.
 
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