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Originally Posted by Comeau-SCS
Imax B6 all the way. I know its not the cheapest but they can charge almost any type of battery with different number of cells. You can choose the exact charge rate and they balance lipo well and it is durable. They only downside I can see is that is beep when you press buttons 
And also the batteries in phones and laptop are lithium-ion not lithium polymer. They are a lot less fragile and can handle overcharge better. However they are usally a lot larger for the same capacity and have lower discharge rate. |
Hm, looking into the Imax B6 but also considering some other chargers as well. It sorta feels like "too much charger" since I'll only have 2 batteries to charge every once in a while when I'm not running a GBBR.
Also, learned something new about phone batteries, always thought they were the same thing for some reason. Good to know, thanks!
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Originally Posted by lurkingknight
I think the standard is 30A fuse... but that's rather high... I've seen guns in distress not pop a fuse, and guns prematurely pop a fuse, so it's kind of a headscratcher when you're talking about disposable fuses.
I'm getting into installing poly fuses into a few client guns as testers. they will pop when they get to a certain temperature usually through surge, but you can pop them with heavy draw setups if you use a lot of semi... I'm talking big motor, short gears, big spring type setups.
The nice thing about them is that when they cool down they resume functioning as normal so there's nothing to replace... unless you really melt it down but by that point lots of other things have gone really wrong.
I would also recommend an imax b6ac ( with the ac adapter built in), some of them are external powered and you don't want to deal with the hassle.
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lol, I know that feeling I was confused as heck when I got my AEG since it fired a couple of bb's then stopped working for no reason. Took a few hours to find the problem as the motor was fine, fuse wasn't burnt out and everything else worked perfectly. Took a closer look at the 25A fuse after and lo and behold... the fuse wasn't sealed properly and one of the end caps came right off... problem found...
Those polyfuses sound interesting but I don't think I'd need one as I'm running everything stock and I don't have plans to really upgrade the G3.
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Originally Posted by ThunderCactus
never cheap out on a charger
read up on the noob guide for batteries if you want to know everything you need to know about lipo!
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lol totally want to cheap out and get more gas mags instead haha, can't believe I missed the noob battery guide... facepalm... will read it over, thanks!