Good service

I am very happy with my purchase. I have been using the ISDT FD-200 for a few years and the BD380+ is superior in almost every way. I love the user interface (without mobile phone / app) and also when using the app it is very fast/responsive. I agree with the other reviewer it would be better if it ramped down the current to better hit the set cut-off voltage, but it's pretty easy to adjust your cutoff to get the resting voltage you want. The bigger item that is a bit annoying to me is the max input voltage is 30V. This is way higher than 6S, even LiHv, but not enough for 8S. It seems designed to work with 7S max, which practically nobody uses...would love to have a unit that supports 8S, or get confirmation from SkyRC that it can handle 8S.

Receivers arrived well packaged and as described at a good price

Works exactly how it was designed at a great price.

Exactly what I ordered very happy

I was very pleased at how quickly progressive shipped my order. They also have a wide variety of the products that I couldn't find elsewhere. I wish I had found them sooner.

Works as advertised. Great product support.

After the order by internet, I had an immediate confirmation . Shipping was really fast, packaging perfect, Power supply delivered right on time.

They are good

Product came in safely. Shipping was fast!

As soon as I saw this it got added to my order. Well made and at a fair price when no one else sells anything like it in the RC hobby space. Anyone that uses EC5s and solders their own battery & esc connectors knows what a paint getting the 5mm bullet plug into the plastic housing can be at times. Most people myself included usually will resort to using a flat head screwdriver which works but can also damage if not carefully done. This little tool is designed to sit around the wire & on top of the bullet so when you hit it in its evenly going in and the wire doesn't get damaged.

I have a couple smaller jigs I've been using for my 1/8 scale electric Buggys, but their almost too small and not enough when soldering ESCs, Motor or Battery wires & connectors. This comes with a decent little steel plate w/ feet that the delrin soldering jig sticks to and slides around on. At the top there's a groove cut out so a small helping hand can move around. Clips are beefy enough for my 10,11 & 12awg wires. Decent price compared to some other options out there. Only issue is the magnets in the bottom & side of delrin jig need to either be larger or another one added. The jig sticks but IMO the magnets being a little stronger would be nice. I ordered a extra helping hand so I have 2 clips I can move and position how I want.

Great board nice packaging, love the bonus sticker and lemon drops. Enjoyed them while soldering.

Only thing is the ribbon connector that came with the board for battery and motor data - either the zif clamp was manufactured with a poor tolerance or it was the wrong cable because it fit very loose and could not make contact with pins - required soldering wires directly to the 8 pads to the left and right of the zif connector - still works great

I tried to get these to desync on a high-powered 12S quad, but they just kept working. 100% throttle and back down, over and over, but they just kept going. Alka, himself, advised me to use lots of capacitance, so I had over 1000uF per esc - that probably helped. I don't have many hours on them, yet, though, so I can't speak to longevity, but I'm feeling good about them with the built-in TVS diode and huge caps that I installed.

The features that attracted me to the MC5000 were (1) its extreme flexibility in battery charging parameters, (2) its versatility in battery chemistries, and (3) the graphical display of the charging and discharging processes (photo). With the MC5000 one can charge just about any mainstream battery chemistry: Li-ion, Li-ion HV, LiFePO4, LTO (2.4V), Na-Ion, NiMH, NiCd, NiZn (1.6V), rechargeable alkaline (RAM). It also accepts batteries of up to 80 mm length, which means it can charge my 78 mm protected USB-C bidirectional Nitecore 21700 batteries. Actually, I wish it could accept even longer batteries, perhaps 100 mm, to accommodate my 46950 batteries. It offers 5A x 4 charging, yes, 5 amps simultaneously at each station. I’m not aware of any other multi-station round battery charger that can do this. It does so conveniently without an AC-to-DC brick to lug around. I also really like the capacity test, a C-D-C cycle, which at completion displays the discharge (D) capacity and the final re-charge (C) capacity in mAh (photos). It’s good to have both values.

It can also connect to an app on a smart phone through Bluetooth, a capability I have not yet used. For me, there is only one significant minus, namely, the lack of memory modes. A marginal minus is that the end-of-charge is not crisply indicated: the slot goes from slowly blinking green to solid green. Why not have not have a different and distinct color (e.g., blue) at full charge? It does turn red during a discharge cycle (photo).

Because the firmware can be updated, additional capabilities could be added to the MC5000, such as memory modes.

I think the manual is decent, but I wish it provided cook-book instructions for non-routine operations like capacity testing, with pointers relevant to the specific type of battery being tested. How do company labs specifically do it? I had to figure out that the capacity test is performed with the C-D-C option. The manual does offer a helpful table of recommended battery voltages and charge/discharge rates for the 9 battery types it can charge (p. 7).

All in all, I HIGHLY recommend the MC5000. With its extensive settings flexibility, accommodation of many battery chemistries, acceptance of long (<=80mm) batteries, its graphical display, and 5A x 4 charging, it’s my favorite and most capable battery charger. Kudos to ProgressiveRC for a competitive price and fast delivery.