The RC-power 601BC is a charger for high capacity batteries. It has a USB connection and can be read out by a computer. It is very similar to the e-Station BC6 by Bantam.
Check charging curve with Logview: http://www.logview.info (see its documentation).
On Linux (documentation found here):
- Get the installer http://www.logview.info/vBulletin/downloads.php?do=cat&id=2 → LogViewInstaller_2.4.5.203.exe and install it on Windows. Then copy the program folder to your Linux System and run using Wine.
→ set binary format on the serial port! Here are the serial port settings:
9600 8n1
flow ctrl: none
dtr, dts: off, off