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Re: Be aware of battery and charger inconsistencies!

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Originally Posted by GearsOfFury View Post
So to answer this another way, and avoid illegal chargers: what is it about this charger that is apparently improving the OP's robot performance? Is there a process to follow with the "standard" chargers that should achieve the same result, but safely?
the main issue we suffer from is inconsistencies, not necessarily any kind of improved performance over other good chargers. All of our previous chargers get different performance because they all charge the batteries to a different level. The max charge current is actually irrelevant to us, what matters is the state the batteries are in when they get taken off the chargers. These Stanly provide a consistent charge every time and every charger is the same. That is the key element we need, a consistent charge level that actually fully charges the batteries. We do not get that out of the 6 old ones we had(which there are three different types) but we do with these new ones.