These days I’m running a lot of classes at the track every week. Personally, I’m running 2wd SCT, 4wd SCT, and 1/8th E Buggy. I also bring my two sons to the track, who are each running a 2wd SCT. My E Buggy uses 2-2cell Lipos, and each of the other trucks just use one each. That means that every round at the track I’m using 6 Lipos. I was running two chargers before I picked up the T6, and I just couldn’t keep up. I needed something I could charge multiple batteries at the same time with.

Then I saw the Thunder T6 Multi Lipo Charger online. The T6 enables you to charge up to 4 1S-6S batteries at the same time. You can mix and match what type of battery is on each charger, it is fully user configurable. Each of the chargers has a 5 battery memory. You can store settings for up to 5 batteries in each charger, and quickly select which battery you want to charge when you hook one up. The T6 will charge all four batteries at 6 amps each max. It does only have DC input, so you need an external power supply. I picked up a Team Checkpoint power supply to give this charger some juice.

The charger comes with an array of leads, most of which are of no use to me. I’ll need to make some new leads so that I can fully utilize this charger.

It is a Lipo balancing charger, and you can simultaneously balance all four batteries. It only came with two balance boards, however. So if you want balance all 4 you’ll need to pickup additional balance boards

The charger has 4 pairs of banana jack style outputs. Each clearly marked with what charger they coincide to

Enough with the formalities. How well does it work?

I hooked up 4 batteries to the charger, setting each screen up individually to achieve the desired settings for whatever Lipo was connected to it.

All four batteries were given the full 6.0 amps this charger is capable of. Charging times are the same as a single battery charger, about 45 minutes to fully charge a 5000 mah 2S Lipo. The screen shows you the current stats for the battery you are charging. In order from upper left to lower right: Battery type, Amps, current pack voltage, what mode you are in, charge time, and Mah put into the pack.

At the track the first time out, I setup the T6 before the first round. As each car came off the track, I put the freshly spent battery on charge. I didn’t have to wait for a battery to be done, and by the time I needed to charge battery #5 the first battery was already done.

The charger performed flawlessly, I’m very happy with my purchase. I’ll continue to use the charger as the summer goes on, and report back in a few months with an actual review.