I've had a BC6 for a while now and its the best charger I've used. Very easy to get used to and very user friendly(except the instruction manual). I like how it displays Charge voltage, amperage, time and capaciity on the first screen and then you flip to the next screen to monitor each cell. Why wouldn't you recomend this to a new RCer though? NiMh are just as dangerous as LiPo without the performance. When is the last time you saw/heard of a LiPo causing any damage(minus one idiot in the TRX forum who swears his "buddy's" house burned down and now Lithium packs are banned from his job)? I mean Lithium batteries are in cell phones, laptops, cameras and pretty much everything else now. They aren't dangerous to use. I have seen MANY more NiMh and NiCd failures than LiPo failures.
Edit-this was the guy, the mods deleted the good stuff though
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Originally Posted by jrfink
I also have a few electrics.
I don't like lipos. My friend burned his garage and everything in it thanks to a lipo battery.
I run NiMH in my electric vehicles. I have several hundred dollars in batteries and swap them out to run them. Gets costly and time consuming.
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He went on saying that no lithium batteries were allowed on the property where he worked because they were too dangerous
When we told him Lithium batteries powered cell phones, laptops, cameras and more he said that none of that was in there
Just a huge laugh. Apparently the mods thought it should be necessary to delete our comments on his idiocy.