I have the big brother, the All-88. It's a tiny bit quirky, slightly odd interface, weird choice in LED-colors, but it's worked flawlessly, and so far never given me any grief.
I need more chargers, like I need a hole in the head lol (I have 20, to date; well, 22, if you count the 2 D4s, which haven't entirely been put out to pasture) - 7 (or 9, if you count the D4s) of which are 4-slot chargers, and 1 is a 6). But, for the hell of it, I went ahead and watched a few YouTube video reviews on the All-88, and wasn't very impressed with the interface, or the overall appearance of the charger. The quality seemed a little bit cheesy.
There were also some complaints about the wells not properly making contact with larger batteries like D NiMhs. They kept falling out of place, and had to be continually re-adjusted (pressure put on the batteries) to make a positive contact. This seems like a serious design flaw, to me.
Maybe they worked out this issue. I certainly hope so.
On the other hand, I like that the readouts seem to give you a host of information, for all channels simultaneously, without having to toggle through separate screen displays. That's a nice touch.
Do you really have to pre-program
each and
every slot, for the specific battery type and voltage with which you're going to charge that battery, before you can even install the battery? That would be a pain in the neck, for me. I have way too many batteries to be bothered with that.
I'm happy to manually override a preset (default) charge rate, etc., when I feel like it's warranted, but to have to do that with each and every insertion of a battery...oh, hell no.
Lastly, evidently, the charger comes with spacers, to accommodate the smaller batteries. I am vehemently against using spacers in any of my chargers, I feel the spring tension should be adequate that it can accommodate any size battery I want to use in it (assuming the battery is on the specified compatibility list for that charger, naturally), without adding even more parts, in between my batteries and the charger, itself.
I also believe a smart charger ought to be to automatically distinguish the type of battery chemistry in a battery you insert in each its wells, and all independently of each other, so you can mix and match chemistries,
without ever having to tell it what you're installing in any given slot. I thought all mixed-chemistry chargers did this.
They don't?
