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Does anyone have any suggestions for a NIMh/ NICD fast charger. the trickle chargers simply take far to long to charge the larger battery packs i have

Hobbyking sell the "Turnigy ACCUCELL 6"
I have been using mine for a few years and it is brilliant,
It Charges Lipos, Nimhs, Ni-Cads and Lead Acid battery's,
It comes with all the cables and adapters you will need,
It is really fast BUT it does not come with any instructions,
All is not lost,
There is a first class tutorial on U-Tube which is much better than a couple of pages of notes.
It has a backlit screen and it is really foolproof to set up.
Recommended.

https://www.rctank.de/Monstertronic-Cha ... Ni-MH-LiPo
What do you feed by fast?à Nicd,Nimh battery charges in 12 / 14 hours and at the 10 th capacity.This type of charger ,is said to be intelligent.that is to say that it constantly monitors the charge of the battery ( in automatic ) but also works in manual mode.The original chargers HL,Taigen,in Torro are only common power supplies

The "Monstertronic" is not rated for Nimh or Ni-cad which Carrion says he wants the Accucel 6 is good for all the common types of battery.

If you're only going to charge nimh batteries, I recommend the Onyx Chargers. I have the Onyx 240 dual charger so I can charge two at once and they allow you to charge at 0.8 amps, 1.5 amps, 3.0 amps, or fast charge at 5 amps. I've had mine for about 6 years and it still works like a champ. I think I paid about $90 for it brand new at the local hobby shop.

To be honest, I'd get a charger that does all the battery types, just in case you do decide to use lithium batteries in the future.
After saying that, I have two types of charger, one for what you want, and one for the lithium batteries, but only because I didn't think I'd need a lithium charger, I was wrong lol.

One of this site's favourites is the SKYRC iMAX B6 V2 60W 6A DC 2.5mm/XT60 Dual Input Battery Balance Charger Discharger with XT60 Output for Lipo/Li-ion/LiHV/LiFe/NiMh Battery, a favourite with good reason.

It is both mains and 12v, does every sort of rechargable battery, comes with all leads for all connector types and lots of balance leads too. It never lets you down and it's around $31 at Banggood and in stock. Why pay more?

General Jumbo01 wrote:
It is both mains and 12v, does every sort of rechargable battery, comes with all leads for all connector types and lots of balance leads too. It never lets you down and it's around $31 at Banggood and in stock. Why pay more?

Indeed the Accucel 6 which will charge Life, Lion, Lipo, Nimh, Ni-cad, Lead acid and is able to charge from the mains or from a 12volt car battery and is around £26.

They sound similar then. Does it discharge and cycle etc. Useful for NiHMs. In any event, there are some very competent chargers out there that will do everything one might want and you don't need to splash too much cash to get one. Just look around the web.

General Jumbo01 wrote:They sound similar then. Does it discharge and cycle etc. Useful for NiHMs. In any event, there are some very competent chargers out there that will do everything one might want and you don't need to splash too much cash to get one. Just look around the web.

I would not be surprised if these were rebadged but otherwise identical chargers as Turnigy is a Hobbyking label as witness the Turnigy series of radios and the identical Flysky Radios and yes the Accucell 6 does indeed discharge and cycle.
What I would say is do avoid Chinese cheapo knockoffs because the last thing anyone needs is another Chris Ludwig disaster.
The FETs in the Accucell are top quality which will almost certainly not be the case in any imitation charger.