Well, I have decided to go with the Maha Powerex Wizard One MH C9000 Battery Charger-Analyzer!
After extensive reading, searching, reading some more and searching some more, I determined the C9000 is what I wanted out of a charger. It may even be more than I need, but at least I'll have the piece of mind, that if I decide I want to go "battery geek" with my batteries, I have the charger to do it with.
Another huge selling point for me was Maha's customer support. Everything I have read points to it as being top-notch. My first hand experience with them also confirmed it as well. Every inquiry I made by email was promptly answered to my satisfaction. Which leads me to believe if I have issues they will be responsive and actually supportive. Every review or comment I read where folks had an issue with their product (which was few and far between), commented they were promptly accommodated either by repair or exchange with no back-log or red tape.
An example being, a couple of posts I read in another forum about an owner who after FIVE years started experiencing display issues with the screen being hard to read, etc.. He was thinking about replacing his Maha with another name brand charger other then Maha and was asking for advice. In a later post he goes on to mention that he ended up contacting Maha support and they offered to give him a new LCD screen display free of charge minus shipping and that he decided he would do that instead. A few posts later he posts that he received a box from Maha and inside was a BRAND NEW charger! Maha, unbeknownst to him decided to just give him a brand new C9000....after 5 years of owning his other one, which by the way was well past the 3 year warranty. All that was not working in his old charger was the LCD screen and Maha just went ahead and gave the guy a whole new charger instead, when all he was expecting was to get his LCD screen replaced......That right there sealed the deal for me! You can't go wrong with support like that.
(If only another company would follow that lead when it comes to their screen/display issues.)
Other less expensive battery chargers with less bells and whistles may work well for many, so the C9000 may not be for everybody, but I am of the opinion this a quality charger that will last me many years and even if not, Maha may very well GIVE me another one to last me some more years if need be.
In sum, given the hundreds of overwhelming positive reviews I read, coupled with all the positive feedback I received here and in other places, I figured at that the end of day (in my opinion) for the price of the investment and quality of the product, there is no better charger out there right now.
Besides if all else fails, I will take comfort in knowing that at least I will have another toy to play with.
