The Ideal Charger
 

I'm posting this thread because I read everyone posting saying that wall chargers WILL kill your battery over time. Right now, that's all I've got. So I am looking at "smart" chargers on the interwebnets right now but I am not sure what to look for.

I've also read that when buying a charger, you shouldn't buy it from an airsoft store but a general hobby store. Is this correct?

You can get a basic smart charger on airsoftparts.ca for about 30 bucks.

Mainly what a smart charger does is automatically shuts off once you battery is done charging.

Those "smart" chargers are known as "The blue box of death" around here lol...

Sometimes they will just kill your batteries out right.

However I don't really have that great of a suggestion... Bolt actions don't need batteries lol.

Haha that's true. But I don't play many outdoor games so I don't think people would like me shooting them with an L96 at 20 feet.

I've used a VSR-10 indoors before (at 330 FPS, not with the upgrade cylinder in it lol)

It's... hard lol

The only reason I would want to use a bolt action rifle indoors (probably a K98 of some brand) would be the ability to easily attach a bayonet. Can you say "BANZAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"?

ANYWAYS, is there any way around the complete murder of my batteries?

My "blue box" charger is great, I know a few other people with them, and they work great for all of us.

http://www.duratrax.com/caraccys/dtxp4005.html
Got this charger about 4 years ago, never had a single problem with it. It still works great to this day.

I had one of those, it was great.

When I used to run NiCD and NiMH, I used a Duratrax Intellipeak Digital Pulse charge (no longer in production). Great charger, everything you need, never killed a battery in 5 years.

When I switched to LiPo, I picked up an Imax B6 balance charger. No complaints so far on that after almost 2 years.

Looks like 666 wins this thread. I can buy one of those a mile away from my house for the same $$$ as a shipped cheaper one.

I have one and those are AMAZING chargers.

Is the "DuraTrax Piranha AC/DC Digital Peak Charger" posted by 666 better than the smart charger at Airsoft1parts.ca?

ELITE6iACDC

http://www.cheapbatterypacks.com/?si...chrg&scat=LIPO

So far it's never given me a problem and the customization is outrageous.

I love mine:

http://www.gandlairsoft.com/catalog/...%20Charger.bmp