HOTAD6 Pro Lipo Charger AC200W DC650W 15A for LiHv Nicd NiMH Lipo Battery with Balance Phone Wireless Charging RC Car Drone Parts

The best charger for anything RC. This is the end all be all. You don’t need anything more than this. The user interface is great and the functionality is top notch. It is a little noisy if you leave the wireless charger on but I just turned that off. For the money there’s nothing that comes close. Great value!

Charger works great. I can monitor the resistance on each cell while charging. Great a d fast costumer service! Very happy and will buy from the seller again when I can afford anything Hota d6 pro.

Small, easy to use, and very powerful! I really like that I can power it from AC and DC sources!

I love this charger. It charges anything I have thrown at it. I like the fact that you can hook it up to a DC supply or your car. Charging 2 batteries at once is a big plus over my old charger.The only con is it does not come with any cables but I knew that going in. What sold me was the easy interface. All the settings are on one screen for each battery.If you want to just buy once and be done this is the charger to get.

I have had this charger for 6 months and it has been awesome. This charger is easy to use and quick to set up.

Love it, small form factor, bright screen, quiet fans and DC power!

Good:* The interface to be super fast and easy to use. It autopopulates things where it can and the wheel+click works very well. I also like that it will default channel 2 to be the same settings as channel 1 so when you charge pairs of batteries it's super easy.* It delivers approx the specified 200W on AC, but seems to mostly float around 180-190W. I only tested this with two channels, however, so maybe a single channel will do 200W exactly. I didn't test charging off DC.* Measurements seem quite accurate, better than the usual +/-0.05V that often seems specced. The UI also does a good job showing them so you don't need to dig through menus to see cell voltages or resistances.The bad:* The fan might be the worst fan ever. Or maybe just a really bad fan coupled with really bad thermal design. Either way it is not only _loud_ but it fails to keep the thing cool when discharging. Even though this is supposed to do 15W per port, it only does that when <=72C and drops 5W per port once the internals hit about 74C. It averages about 6-7W. It is absolutely inexcusable that they put this vacuum cleaner of a fan in a ~$150 device and it can't even cool enough to keep up with the pathetic 30W rated discharge. I'm probably going to try to replace it and maybe toss heat sinks on parts.* It supports an external discharge mode, which uses the battery to power the device and sets it to effectively "charge" some load like a resistor or a lightbulb. The set discharge current is what is drawn from the battery, which is good. (But that means the output current might be quite a bit higher! If you discharge a 4S battery @2A into a 1S battery it will get 8A.) This does work (thankfully or this ~$150 device wouldn't be able to bring a charged battery to storage levels without taking a day and exceeding hearing damage thresholds), but it's clearly a bit of a hack. See, the device _must_ not be powered from AC (the DC power port is just connected to the output of the AC->DC part and sits at ~30V when the AC is plugged in; plugging in both will blow something up) so the discharge battery also needs to power the device itself (screen, fan, etc). As a result, you might request 2A of discharge but it will actually draw 2.2A from the battery (actually measured with a 3S battery). Okay, exceeding the requested discharge by ~2-5W isn't too bad (usually), except that it only _measures_ the 2A, so the measured capacity is off by ??%.* On a more minor note, the minimum allowable voltage for LiPo discharge voltage is 3.5V. That's not unreasonable, but LiPos are generally considered to be safe down to 3.2V and the 3.5V->3.4V range can represent like 5-10% of the capacity (with 3.4V->3.2V maybe another 5%). This can be bypassed by changing the cell type to "LiXX", but it's annoying when doing capacity testing.Final thoughts? It's pretty expensive for having a few glaring cheap-outs (decent fan, DC in current metering, etc). It does offer a decent UI and mostly does everything, which is nice, but I suspect that you can find something better for less. Or two single channels for less, or a charger + dedicated discharger for less etc.

Bought this over two years ago and it is still the best and reliable charger I have ever owned. Great product.