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padailey · 06.27.2007, 04:11 PM

This is my personal opinion from reading and use not a 100% technical one. Charging lipos is not a huge deal... one charger doesn't necessarily charge better than another its more how fast. So I wouldn't be terribly concerned about which one charges better than another. A friend has the EOS 5i and it charges great.... but he uses a 6000mah battery so it takes longer to charge. Now the 1210i should use the same basic charging programming so I wouldn't be concerned if it charges well... I'm sure it does. The 1210i has some neat features though that could suit you very well. You can network 2 batteries together with LBA10 balancers and charge 2 packs at once. Since you are going up to 5000mah and the charger does 10A that could work out real nice. It also can charge at 2C which could be very useful. It also has a data port that you can monitor each cell on the screen. Sounds like a great charger. I think what it comes down to is a cheaper charger will charge the cells just fine... do you want to pay for those extras (which seem pretty cool IMO). Just by looking at what it can do I can't think of a charger that does more than the 1210i can. Maybe if we keep this going someone will wander in that has actually used one.

Have you searched or asked in the MaxAmps forum? MaxAmps does sell Hyperion chargers so maybe you can get some more info there.

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padailey RC-Monster Carbon Fiber Offline Posts: 55 Join Date: May 2007	06.27.2007, 04:11 PM This is my personal opinion from reading and use not a 100% technical one. Charging lipos is not a huge deal... one charger doesn't necessarily charge better than another its more how fast. So I wouldn't be terribly concerned about which one charges better than another. A friend has the EOS 5i and it charges great.... but he uses a 6000mah battery so it takes longer to charge. Now the 1210i should use the same basic charging programming so I wouldn't be concerned if it charges well... I'm sure it does. The 1210i has some neat features though that could suit you very well. You can network 2 batteries together with LBA10 balancers and charge 2 packs at once. Since you are going up to 5000mah and the charger does 10A that could work out real nice. It also can charge at 2C which could be very useful. It also has a data port that you can monitor each cell on the screen. Sounds like a great charger. I think what it comes down to is a cheaper charger will charge the cells just fine... do you want to pay for those extras (which seem pretty cool IMO). Just by looking at what it can do I can't think of a charger that does more than the 1210i can. Maybe if we keep this going someone will wander in that has actually used one. Have you searched or asked in the MaxAmps forum? MaxAmps does sell Hyperion chargers so maybe you can get some more info there.