Nyko PS3 Charge Base 2
Nyko has always made quality 3rd party accessories. I’m very comfortable buying their stuff. From their awesome Wii sensor bar, PS3 guitar to this charging cradle.
I like a place for everything and everything should be in it’s place. My PS3 controllers use to be all over the place not having a place of its own. Most importantly, I always forgot to charge it before it was too late. Things changed when I got the ChargeBase. Now they sit nicely in a sleek stand with the batteries always fully charged and ready for some long Pixel Junk Monsters action.
It goes for about $30 and there isn’t much setting up involved. It plugs directly into the wall socket for power so no more taking up that valuable USB port on your 40GB PS3. Plus you can put the base somewhere else. It doesn’t have to be beside the PS3. The base unit comes with 2 dongles that plug into your controllers. They’re designed to be left connected to the controllers. They’re used to help facilitate charging. Basically drop and charge. I’ve used other charger bases before and most of them are very cumbersome in that you had to line up the mini-USB jack with the DualShock3’s charging port. With the dongles and the ChargeBase, you just drop it in and forget about it.
The Chargebase will turn green when the PS3 controller is fully charged. Red if it’s not, and blinking green when it’s “almost” charged.
You won’t know how much you needed it till you get one.
