722 External Charger

[Mike Sarnovsky]

I have a 722 on the way and I was wondering how critical you guys feel is it to have an external charger.  I saw the 6000mAH batteries from Battery Bank.  A couple of you have also mentioned that you have single/dual external chargers for these batteries.  I'm just wondering how essential it is to have an external charger and your opinions on that.  Thanks.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

I have not had a need for an external charger because all of my shows have been easily covered by having two batteries.  But for a multiple day festival, I would definitely want one so that I could charge several batteries at once.

[nickgregory]

get a dual charger...for me it is nice to know that I have two of the high capacity batteries on charge all the time...you can find them on froogle for around $39...

[fozzy]

I'd like to have one for convienience but i haven't needed one.  The think i don't like about them is they only charge at ~1amp or 6hrs to charge a large capacity battery, so pretty useless for multi-day festies unless you have AC.

[CQBert]

I had a charger and it ran $39...  IT was one of those mulit-purpose deals, picked up at Ritz Camera...it would charge almost any camcorder battery.

CQBert

[Rick]

I'd like to have one for convienience but i haven't needed one.  The think i don't like about them is they only charge at ~1amp or 6hrs to charge a large capacity battery, so pretty useless for multi-day festies unless you have AC.

I've got the Lenmar MSC-1LX - Mach 1® "Alpha" Speed Charger (http://www.audio-discounters.com/msc-1lx.html) and it charges batteries in a few hours... It claims to be a smart charger, but I don't know how. I haven't had to use it very much though...


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