HOBBYMATEImax B6 Clone Lipo Battery Balance Charger, Rc Hobby Battery Balance Charger LED W/AC Power Adapter

I've wait a while before leve a comment as the last charger i bought died almost immediately after my review (bangood one). This is working perfectly charge any kind of R/C batteries LiPO, NiMH, LiPE and others, it have CHARGE, BALANCED CHARGE, DISCHARGE AND STORAGE mode all programmable as Ampere and type of battery (1s to 6S), it also automatically test the connected battery before start the charge cycle. Comes with a bunch of plugs, mostly useless for me as unfortunately only 1 have the banana plug to use for charging purpose and as it comes with plastic T connector (seems fake as as i know the real one are made of silicon plastic) i had to cut it and solder a xt60 plug. Other cable have female T connector not sure what those needed for as the only output on the charger is the banana and the balancer ( u have to plug both in order to charge using balanced mode) . It has the crocodile plugs to connect the input to a car battery in order to use the charger also outside. Just add a common banana 11 to 1 plugs and you will be able to charge all your batteries.

Everything works great.Had a need to test capacity, for a single cell. Went to discharge mode.Note, the ONLY discharge profile that lets you modify min (discharge-to) voltage is NiCD.The default min discharge voltage for LiFe is way too low, at 2V. Needs to be more like 2.7.So, to be able to safely discharge LiFePo4, you select NiCd and set the discharge voltage to 2.7.You'd then use that profile (NiCD) when doing the discharge excersize. Don't forget to switch back to proper mode when doing charging.Anyway.Set the discharge current to 2A, connected my cell (LiFePo4) and started the discharge.It only went for 11secs before current dropped to 0.0 Amp !Guess what ! All of these (the original and the clones) can only handle 5W in discharge mode.It needs to be able to dissipate that much power internally, and due to its smaller size, can only handle the 5W max.In my case, single LiFePo4 cell being @ 3.2V, I can only discharge at max of 1.5Amp, sothat A*V=P stays under allowed 5W of powerWhen I set that limit, discharge started working as expected.If you want to discharge 2 cells, then the current needs to be halved and so on.

Must say the first item I received has some issues on one button, it works a little random after physically pressed.The replacement works better, still has a little issue on one button but it's acceptable, I would say the manufacture should use some better quality buttons, which doesn't cost much overall.The charging went well, as far as you know what to do and how to set. Tested with a 2S 5000mah LIPO, only issue is it goes pretty hot, probably related with the charging currency. Also tested an old Traxxas NiMH which I thought it was dead because the original Traxxas charger wouldn't charge it, but it turns out the battery is fine, or maybe this charger "revived" it, overall a good product with a reasonable price, would recommend.

I already had a little Lipo charger but recently, I had two Lipo 3s 2200ah packs go flat on me due to my own negligent abuse of them. My Lipo charger refused to charge them so I researched how to recover flat Lipos and the requirement was a charger that would allow you to set battery type, cell count (via voltage), and flexible charge rate. I bought this one because, unlike the original SkyRC B6 charger available here on Amazon, this one came with a power brick and was the same price as the original without. At any rate, I was able to use the NiMh setting at .5 to bring the packs back up to 9.9V and then switch over to the LiPo setting at 2.2A to balance it to full charge again. Worked great on both packs so I'm happy. I'd buy it again.

Arrived in New condition and great packaging. Had adapters for every battery from tpin to traxxas. Haven't tested it out yet because the menu is definitely not super user friendly and making it work with LiIo batters seems to be a pain but I'm sure it'll do great with my lipos. I'll update review if it blows up upon use hahaUpdate : I've used it to charge a the 1500mah 2cell 18650 LiIo pack that came with my son's wltoys 12428 and it works great on the liIo and lipo balance charge modes. Wish it could do more than one battery at a time tho but good for the money!

Be very careful the voltage rating for this charger is not set properly it has exploded five of my LiPO batteries if you're into the sport with LiPO batteries you know that's probably most likely over $200 for the stupid $30 charger.

First "hobby grade" charger I've ever owned. I used to just use the charger that came in the box with my rc vehicles. This thing is way faster. I found esu instructions on YouTube cause I'm lazy and it's pretty simple. I haven't had an issue and have charged probably 20-30 2s and 3s lipo's on it. Highly recommend. Delivery was fast and price was great.

For the price it does great! Definitely charges lipos faster than the trickle usb chargers you usually have to use! That said I am pretty sure that the voltage reading is not very accurate. Also I reccomend pluging the power supply to the unit before attaching it to ac power. I did this the opposite a few times until it sparked on me....pretty scary if you ask me. Another issue I have is the supplied adapters, I really think it needs to come with a few more options, what did come with it was fine, but I had to buy several other banana plug adapters for about half of my batteries. All in all not bad, if not a little cheaply made.... Make sure you have a voltage meter for your batteries, so that you can get better voltage readings.