Beat Your Truck - RC Product Reviews - Pirahna Digital Charger

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DuraTrax PIRAHNA Digital Peak Charger

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With our recent purchase of two new Team Losi XXX-T trucks, we needed better chargers for our batteries. Taking into consideration price and features, we decided upon the Piranha Digital Peak Charger. At a cost of about $55, the features were just too abundant to ignore.

It features a digital readout screen that tells you how the charging process is going at all times. Total time to charge, total volts, total capacity and input voltage. The Piranha is an AC/DC charger, 3 amp for AC and 5 amp for DC (bonus for us guys who like to play in the field). It is able to charge both Cd and MH batteries. It has 10 program settings so you can customize a charge for each of your batteries. Programmable features include: audible alert tones, m voltage drop-off, capacity, trickle charge settings, and amps. When the charge is complete, the digital screen displays the data for the charge (so you can see how well it did, or didn't charge), an audible tone sounds (you can choose from several tones), and it you desire, it will go into trickle charge mode (also customizable for your needs). The Piranha also has built in alarms for incorrect input voltage, reverse polarity (hooking up the battery backwards), and poor connections.

It is a compact unit and doesn't take up a lot of room in our toolbox (yet another bonus). Will this work for the competition racer? Probably not. Will it work for everyone else? Absolutely. And at the price, it leaves some money in your pocket for things like an extra battery pack!

After about two months of using the charger, the face of the unit came loose and now likes to pop off whenever it feels like it. It's kind of a pain...still a good charger but it is getting annoying. Time for some mods to the charger! Where's the duct tape?!

Visit the Duratrax web site for more info on this charger.