18650 charger

[daleson]

Hi does anyone have a 18650 charger for sale must charge at least 2 batts cheers

[flavourtank]

how much you wanting to spend???

my personal opinion would be to buy new.

[300]

Sept 11, 2014 18:52:06 GMT daleson said:

Hi does anyone have a 18650 charger for sale must charge at least 2 batts cheers

Try Torchy over the road on UKV for an Xtar SP2, £15 delivered. Will charge up to 2amps if you're in a rush & your batteries will take it. It has no equal for the money.

[VapingBad]

Sept 11, 2014 19:19:22 GMT 300 said:

Sept 11, 2014 18:52:06 GMT daleson said:

Hi does anyone have a 18650 charger for sale must charge at least 2 batts cheers

Try Torchy over the road on UKV for an Xtar SP2, £15 delivered. Will charge up to 2amps if you're in a rush & your batteries will take it. It has no equal for the money.

I had two from him, great chargers and he confirmed that the offer was still on a couple of days ago.  They don't do 18350s, but you can make a spacer easy enough and check your battery's spec before using 2 A charge (I charge VTC4s and Pana 3400 mAh only at that rate).

[pxr5]

Sept 11, 2014 19:58:58 GMT VapingBad said:

Sept 11, 2014 19:19:22 GMT 300 said:

Try Torchy over the road on UKV for an Xtar SP2, £15 delivered. Will charge up to 2amps if you're in a rush & your batteries will take it. It has no equal for the money.

I had two from him, great chargers and he confirmed that the offer was still on a couple of days ago.  They don't do 18350s, but you can make a spacer easy enough and check your battery's spec before using 2 A charge (I charge VTC4s and Pana 3400 mAh only at that rate).

I've just received an xstar sp2 from torchy over at UKV. I did a lot of research before choosing this brand and I have to say I definitely made the right choice. £15 delivered is a bargain.

[apostle51]

Torchy also selling the d2 and d4 chargers at a reasonable price. They do 18350 too.

ukvapers.org/Thread-Nitecore-D2-and-D4-charger

[VapingBad]

Sept 11, 2014 21:31:33 GMT apostle51 said:

Torchy also selling the d2 and d4 chargers at a reasonable price. They do 18350 too.

ukvapers.org/Thread-Nitecore-D2-and-D4-charger

IIRC MyEpack are cheaper, but not sure what their P&P charges are.

That thread was strange, he said he was a bit disappointed with them as they undercharged, I pointed out that was a good thing for battery life and safety and he said "All true, but some, including me, suffer a bit from OCD, and it niggles them if they know their batteries don't have a full charge."

[buggritt]

Already sent for a replacement - but I wonder if you could answer this VapingBad? I put a badly discharged battery in a nnitecore I2 to see if it could be revived. After an hour of nothing, I binned it. Now that channel on the charger seems to be knackered. It would only charge to 3.9 volts, and then a second battery was making a clicking sound, so I removed it. I'm a bit puzzled.

[VapingBad]

You may have damaged the Nitecore I2 buggritt if the Li battery you tried to revive was below 2 V as it would have treated it as a NiMh, I don't know for sure it that would damage the charger so will give ronaldo a shout.


Also revive programs takes a long time to run below are the rates for some chargers:

Xtar WP2
Between 1.5 and 2.8 volt the charger charges with about 80 mA.
Between 2.8 and 4.18 volt the charger is applying regular charge current.

Xtar WP2 V2
Below 2 volt the charger charges with about 0.5 mA, this is enough to reset a protection pcb (Note: The led is green).
Between 2 volt and 3 volt the charger charges with about 80 mA.
Between 3 and 4.15 volt the charger is applying regular charge current.

Xtar SP2
Below 1.3 volt the charger charges with 0.7mA, this is enough to reset a protection (led is green).
Between 1.3 and 2.8 volt the charger charges with 60 to 75 mA in 0.5A range (0.1A in 1A and 0.2A in 2A range) (led is red).
Above 2.8 volt the charger is applying regular charge current.

(figures from lygte-info.dk)

[ronaldo]

the battery shouldn't have damaged the charger but if the batteries are only charging to 3.9volts then the voltage regulator has gone and it would be cheaper to buy a new charger than to repair it also there is nothing in a battery that could make a clicking sound but once again a faulty voltage regulator can and does click
there is circuitry on the PCB to protect from a direct short and the charger has done what was expected of it and shut down to prevent a higher current from getting to the battery and causing a fire if it had been a very cheap charger then the protection would not have been as good and a higher voltage would have been sent to your batteries so be thankful it was a nitecore as there protection is second to none

[buggritt]

Thanks gents. I will need to read that a few times before it sinks in. I needed a travel charger anyway and have sent for a xtar MC2 with a usb connector.