SKYRC B6 Neo Lipo Charger - Small But Mighty

[@adam.gibson]

The best part about this charger for me... and the reason I got it... You can use it as a cell meter (no source input needed to be hooked up). You just have to realize that in that mode, it pulls the power from the battery you are checking so in my experience, it was about 0.004 volts off when doing that on the first 2 cells (likely where it pulls the power). That works fine for me especially as I know the behavior. I mainly use it to make sure my pack is charged before taking them flying. USB-C charger and cell checker... small size... fair price. Was an instant buy for me. For me, this charger is a cell checker and an emergency charger that I will have with me. I almost always have a 65w USB-C charger with me at all times for other devices.

[@krushpl]

I've had it for around 2 weeks now and I really like it. Great to take it outside. I'm happy with my purchase.

[@NightFall1155]

hey, been looking for a charger for sometime now, How is this charger holding up ?

[@krushpl]

@@NightFall1155 fan little loud couple seconds after start, besides that it's great.

[@puppicorniest]

I got one of these in the mail a few days after your review came out. Loving it so far! It can charge a 6s off usb-c, charge is accurate and quick, power meter functions are great, it's tiny and pretty much my ideal travel charger. I'd almost consider getting a few of these to replace my "main" charger.

[@AKElectroDIY]

Is it still good?

[@mike_t_007]

Just got one... winding how its been performing for him all this time as well

[@puppicorniest]

@@mike_t_007Holding up nicely for me.

[@rgreeneish]

I got mine to display 100w on the PD input and output a max of 76w on a 4s pack. I bet it needs a 6s to hit the full 80w. Impressive for a small inexpensive charger.

[@sixtofive]

For parallel charging 1s & 2s whoop batteries in the field this is just about perfect! Especially with how much charging you can do from a pair of 18650s or 21700s.

[@tk-maker]

USB PD input really helpful, I had standardize all my lipo charger to 200W PD (each port 100W with PD trigger adaptor to XT60) sometimes I use powerbank to charge in bag. this is a great product to grab one for backup. Phone, laptop, drone = 1 travel charger

[@pimenett]

Same here: a PD trigger for few € and an XT60 adaper. I use it also for power my Walksnail goggles.

[@tk-maker]

@@pimenett yah, did the same to my DJI V2, but as a backup power source because PD powerbank always output a fix voltage like 12V/9V. the risk of suddenly blackout because the goggles was unable to show the batt level.

[@Sasha315]

It would be very nice if it was possible to charge it by balance port only. I understand that speed of charge would be much slower, but I have RC car batteries, they use different power connector and I don't care about speed of charge and don't want to mess with adapters. I tried to find charger that can charge by balance port only and none exists except cheapest ones that comes with RC cars. I suggest that manufacturer updated firmware and allows balance port only charging/discharging, that will set this charger apart of all competitors.

[@FratDede]

b3 compact and e3 & e4 chargers are making from balance plug. But you are %100 right modern chargers also should accommodate this basic feature.

[@erikvf7]

Quite nice one with interesting price! I like the colors. Nintendo fans will definitely love it! If I didn't have the ToolkitRC M7, which I'm very happy with, I'd get this one for sure.

[@gmivisualsjason3729]

Excellent as always... Id say continue doing these reviews during the draught...

[@sten6537]

Looks cool but I just want a tiny charger like this with 2x XT60 output for parallel fieldcharging so I dont have to use a parallelboard and lipo's with the same starting voltage.

[@Newyokas]

ZY12PDN board with xt60 is all you need :) works wtth all chargers, 100w max output, and you can paralel them to get whatever wattage your wall chargers can deliver :)

[@MCsCreations]

Brilliant little device, Ian! Thanks for the review! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@typxxilps]

I suggest a comparison video cause I went now through at least 3 or 4 videos I would call charger reviews , but not a single one was a dodge charger review. My impression is that * the ISDT P10 is DC only with no discharging for about 82€ on ebay here * the ToolkitRC M7AC AC/DC Portable Lipo Charger had issues at least on release aas you had made clear + the ToolkitRC P200 bench PSU portable AC/DC bench power supply had caused some commenter to raise there voice about quality issues 98€ here on ebay and that this one here the Sky RC B6 Neo looks like a far more affordable one for juat 40$ on Radiomaster RC with a lot of features. After watching this review for a second time it feels a bit underrated just by the pure impression what I can get for roughly 36€ compared to all the others above in a price range more than 2 times. I like the idea of Radiomaster also selling partner products where they should also offer this ViFly Short Saver for example cause that is missing. I guess this blackfriday & Chinese singles day will become really expensive considering a new radio and such charger plus fpv goggles. You might update the link for the charger to the radiomaster site cause you had mentioned that they are supporting the channel in case we buy from them over your links. And I would like to go this way.

[@adam.gibson]

I calibrated my charger when I got it. I used a calibrated Fluke meter. It wasn't too far off, furthest cell voltage was 0.010 volts off. After calibrating it per the manual, it is dead on now.

[@mylhainen]

Hello! This is something I have been waiting for. But there isn't a link in the description, is there?

[@pepermintpilot1694]

Thanks mate. Great presentation, as always!

[@misiek87]

Gdy wyłącza wam aplikację do aktualizacji w Win 11, w polu wyszukiwania wpisujesz intl.cpl (powinno ci pokazać plik - element panelu sterowania), odpalasz to, prawy dolny róg ustawienia dodatkowe, symbol dziesiętny zmieniasz z przecinka na kropkę. Działa, sprawdzone.

[@TenDrugiGorn]

It reminds me of toolkitrc m6, a little charger with a lot of features but this one is "more better"

[@LukeMaximoBell1]

Genius!

[@dfgaJK]

With that size heatsinks I'm surprised it will sustain 20w discharge, the hota d6 pro will only to do 2x 15w with a much bigger heatsink. Did you test it?

[@adam.gibson]

That is likely because most chargers including D6 are just pathetic for discharge so achieving 20w isn't that hard to do. I have an older Hyperion charger that has built-in discharge of 80w. I think the companies designing bigger chargers are targeting small size too much and sacrificing discharge wattage to do it. I hope the bigger chargers start reversing course and at least start doing 50w at a minimum on internal discharge. I bought a new Hoto F6+ that has very good charge wattage even on AC... it's built-in discharge it pathetic at 13w per port. Yea a lot of bigger chargers (including Hota F6+) are starting to support external discharge and passthrough discharge but I don't want to carry another device or battery just for discharging.

[@dfgaJK]

@@adam.gibson I don't think that is the case, the D6 Pro can do 650W discharge if there is an external sink for the energy, so it is purely a software-imposed limitation that I presume is due to its thermal constraint since the power is dissipated through an array of SMD resistors directly contacting the heatsink. Since the Hotta D6 pro clearly has a bigger heatsink than the charger in the video are you suggesting the SKYRC B6 Neo has a different load device that has better thermal conductivity to allow it to dissipate more energy into the heatsink (i.e. at a higher temperature)? I am skeptical and believe it uses the same SMD resistor array style dissipation hence my disbelief that it could perform any better than the hota.

[@adam.gibson]

​@@dfgaJK I likely didn't explain myself well as you misunderstood what I meant. I am aware that using an external HUGE resistor with some chargers can discharge at very high rates with newer chargers. My point is that I wouldn't want to carry another external device with me to discharge. I would rather the built-in discharge had a higher discharge capability. For this small charger though, it's rating is fine. I am more complaining about bigger chargers that are produced nowadays with low internal discharge ratings. The built-in (without using an external resistor bank) discharge rating is 12 watts x 4 ports for the Hota F6+ per the specs. If you use an external discharge bank hooked up to the charger, you can do 240W x 4 discharge. I would like the internal discharge of newer chargers to at least handle 50 watts per port.... even if it makes it a little bigger. I could live with 50 watts without needing an external resistor bank. 12 watts per port on the Hota F6+ is pretty pathetic. I do get some might be ok with carrying around a discharge bank to plug into the charger to get higher discharge rating or only use it at home. It is likely fine for them. I don't want the complexity. Just give us a little more internal discharge capability.

[@Nullscr1pt]

I just ordered this and it came in the mail today... was excited to try it out... what I noticed is that the fan literally is sputtering on the back. if i hold it sideways it goes vrrm vrrrm vrrm vrrrm. if i turn it UPSIDE DOWN flat.. it starts to spin full speed. turn it back sideways to turn it face up.. Vrmm vrrm vrrrm.. wiggle it around a bit, set it down... FINALLY the fan turns on... man... first use, this thing feels scary if the fan doesn't work or randomly works.... Did your model have a cheap feeling fan? have you tried or will you try charging with it and hold it sideways, move it around? does your fan stay on rock solid? what a bummer... for being shipped from Hong Kong at 35USD its almost impossible to RMA / refund / or get a fix.... Maybe you never noticed it but I think its worth mentioning for anyone who is thinking about this unit... its a 30 dollar unit.. which means CHEAP... I kinda am wishing I bought a 100 dollar higher end charger but hey... I learned from my mistake.... I have a old BC6 estation from 1997 and its STILL going strong! RIPS!... guess we were spoiled in the past by higher quality electronics and in 2020 you have to live with low quality China and cut corners...

[@auto_1_]

Hi. This device can charge Pb 6S with a power of 100W (with a current of 8 Amperes up to a voltage of 14.6 Volts)? Is this baby overloading?

[@WatsitTooyah]

There is a calibration function to tune voltages. You need to use a 6s unfortunately

[@chrisbee5481]

Very informative video. Can you maybe sometime make a flying video. Havent seen you fly in a while. Take some of your Tests out and not only one the bench. That would be very interesting

[@IRON-V]

Or buy a USB-C PD to XT60 cable like ToolkitRC's SC100 and suddenly all your 5s-compatible chargers are now USB-C PD chargers :) I use mine with everything from 1s vifly chargers up to an M6DAC.

[@bspringer]

Or a decoy board, even cheaper

[@IRON-V]

@@bspringer Good call, you could have several of them for the cost one of those cables.

[@michaelmoulds6239]

Hi, can you please tell me? Using this charger if it is possible you can change up batteries with just using the XT60 port only??? Many thanks

[@auto_1_]

This device can charge Pb 6S with a power of 100W (with a current of 8 Amperes up to a voltage of 14.6 Volts)? Is this baby overloading?

[@rrecstudio]

Wow thank you so much for sharing about this charger! I’ve been using the D6 Pro for years now and started to get very tired of carrying all those weight to the field. I’m wondering if this is capable of parallel charging 4-6 4S 850mah batteries? Or maybe 4-6 6S 2200mah lipo with my HGLRC Thor charging board?

[@nuno5125]

You forgot the description ?

[@blakelibby2140]

Can this be used to charge whoop batteries like BT2.0 connectors? How would this be accomplished? I'm looking for the all in one charger that I can grow into starting with single cell whoop batteries up to multi cell lipos for a 5" quad. Is this the charger to start with?

[@Black-ice_fpv]

ITS A MUST HAVE......DEFINATELY......THANKS ..MATE

[@SebastienChedalBornu]

Why is the internal resistance to 0 micro ohms? Before charging at the beginning of tour of the options

[@typxxilps]

4 months later and it is time to work on the chrismas gifts where the charger topic has come up again and YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THAT CHARGER WHICH HAS BECOME FAMOUS DUE TO UP TO 80% FAILURE RATE as 1 owner of 5 had found out. So he warns with a video titled: AVOID! 80% FAILURE RATE - Do not buy B6neo chargers And now I wonder what is going on with the NEO charger cause our old B6 from about 2007 is still working great and never had an issue. I am now about buying an isdt 608pd instead for the boys but not sure if that would be a good decision or not and no one seems to have compared these both with each other.

[@overbuiltautomotive1299]

from what i here the fan is junk and need upgraded

[@typxxilps]

Off Topic guy: regarding your last live stream and the question about the journey of the channel so far and its future I had 2 points I had forgotten so far, but came back while picking up my solar power gear during a 500 km trailer trip I would love to see you talking or even building about a kind of RC Master powerstation, which might also serve at home for other services as well and also being scaleable for those guys that need just 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 kWh cause at 24 kg (cells only) portable comes to an end. Just your general thoughts how your perfect RC Powerstation could or would look like and also a community interactive solution cause if you start drawing a sketch and thoughts other might have experiences and I bet your one would be unique and fit quite well - instead of following all the other RC related channel that finally got infected by the powerstation virus too cause mowadays power stations create a high motivation on so many channels that they can delete their channel name and call them PowerStation only channel. I would call this project a blueprint in such a way like you had been talking about the perfect radio for you till radiomaster came closer and closer and closer in the past 2 years and you had not to build your own. Powerstation is a different topic, small crappy ones versus powerfull toys for big boys, but in the second you start thinking about LFP cells (which is mandatory for a long living one) it is too expensive for RC only use and then things will get bigger till they reach the portable limit. Beyond that I have a product I guess you would love to review and is not a powerstation, but a real powerhouse, also mobile - at least if you own a van like a Sprinter. It is a 5 kW Inverter with integrated 10 kWh battery , so a kind of pillar. You will think about it and would be on the edge of a for sure not, unless you would read about the price tag : roughly 3000€ for a 5 kW inverter with integrated 10 kWh battery. Search on youtube for this video id -mXdnU6_s4E or the title "Solaranlage für Faule - Tewaycell all in one Lösung - 10 KWh auf Rollen" which means solar power system for lazy people and is from a german living in Sweden. This is a 5 kW Inverter for single phase usage - or in combination scaleable to 3 phase system. I guess this would be worth an upgrade for the shop and house but I do not know if this is compliant with british or german regulations cause this german guy and his family is living on a former farm in Sweden . Might get in touch with the manufacturer and ask for a review unit if it would fit.

[@AKElectroDIY]

Recommended??

[@jandomingo9806]

I have a amazon pd usb c charger 100w. Can this handle it?

[@spikester]

Why doesn't the ISDT P10 support storage charge? What kind of oversight is that?

[@MadRC]

Yea I know.

[@spikester]

@@MadRC I'm impressed by these little B6neo chargers, I am seeing the exact same thing you are, longer initial balance charges on the B6neo because every single pack I have is a good 25-30mV out of balance on the iSDT chargers, the D2v1 isn't much better than the P10 either in that regard. It could warrant a whole other video. Both B6neo's I have measure within 1mV each with the same pack, very good.

[@typxxilps]

Is something wrong with the item cause there is no link and not even that to radiomaster cause radiomaster is selling those too if I remember right ? I like the introduction with the overview of chargers but I wonder if that third one 0:21 has a usb type c INPUT too next to aour left hand index finger ? Would be nice to link or show these 2 products too, that toolkit rc and the other one. I will try to find them on the channel cause I am not so convcinced from the PD choice. If that works it is great but too often too many flaws especially from non branded power supplies. My Samsung and Lenovo USB PD are good one and they deliver with all devices as promised, but the spares I had bought which have even higher specs are simply crap not able to deliver this way or another, always having some issues like the do not charge with 60 W like the Samsung and Lenovo do even though those non name are rated 80W chargers. I will get one of these but still not sure cause first of all my Graupner Ultramat is the power house to beat which also has the dual input: 12 V car and AC The key reason for me would be to use that as a bench supply just in the field cause that one is missing on the Graupner completly. And not sure which of these 3 would fit this the best cause my bench power supply is a big riden 1000 W or so and that is nothing I want to carry anywhere. I will check your video search for those but maybe you have a recommendation for a low budget, cause I do not wanna invest big times in these field equipment which I rarely use afterwards. The only reason to buy one would be the mobile power supply function cause I rarely need a mobile charger (flying field / clubs has 230 V solar power system on the roof already).

[@typxxilps]

USB Type C port on that 0:21 ISDT P10 Dual Smart Charger is for firmware update only as you had mentioned in that video, so no PD Input

[@aviphysics]

What voltage do you read on the DC input when USB PD is connected?

[@WatsitTooyah]

20v 100 watts on a capable PD brick

[@big-smoke-rc]

Would this be suitable for charging four (with a balance board) 550mah 2s batteries in the field, using one much larger lipo? Maybe a 4s 6000?

[@MadRC]

Absolutely could do this. However I always advice caution with parallel charging. It’s potentially highly dangerous, you must make sure all the cells and bat voltages are the same.

[@big-smoke-rc]

@@MadRC yes, agreed. Thanks for the help

[@SebastienChedalBornu]

Helicomicto got also 54w of power when using USB C

[@Halphbaked210]

YOOO!! you can buy an usb-c to xt60 and use whatever charger you want

[@aSuspiciousPete]

I’m really unhappy with mine. It’s made from cheap plastic, the screen is to small, dim and slow to update. The charger comes with no adapters whatsoever. The buttons layout doesn’t make sense, the update feature bricks the charger if you try to use without the connection. On top of that I wasn’t impressed with the cooling solution. Overall, you get less for more.

[@Sugar_K]

Dogcom have a branded version of this in the works

[@rainmaker420]

Which I guess would be compatible with their usb-c power bank?

[@Sugar_K]

@@rainmaker420 don’t know much amount it yet

[@greedfox7842]

slow charging is safe charging.

[@chickwithstick7695]

Sold if I could charge my phone...

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

whatsup with the ugly switch colors

[@WatsitTooyah]

"fashion" 🤷‍♂️ just look at their web page

[@RookieRay]

You lost me. Watched twice still not clear if I can charge 6s batteries with just a power cable. Recently your vids are hard to follow I just don’t understand and I’m not watching them because of it