Title: Started out great...
Product review: Interesting design - uses a laptop-style power supply (internal) to ensure quality power, which makes sense to me. Also has an internal fan which started resonating within the first 15 days of owning.Product worked great for the occasional charging / discharging of my Nimh and NiCad packs, till day 154 (warranty runs out at day 120). I started discharging my IB4200 from full capacity (cycling) at 10a and blew the discharging capability of the Ionic to a smelly plume. Capacitors and ceramic resistors were OK - so I'm guessing it was one of the control chips on the board. Anyhoo - I'm pretty dissatisfied since my old Dynamite charger is still going after 5 years.The charging capability still works, but upgrade (discharging ability) from the first generation Ionic was a pretty low-quality add-on in my own opinion.
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