Xtar charger help

[tafilad]

Yes the instructions are okish .I have had to put the battery on an odd angel to get it to charge,Great quick reply from Daz,think i will get a new battery and try that as the battery is now charging on an odd angle

[Karma]

You must have a more technical brain than me then

What size bat do you have that's at 'an odd angle'?

[tafilad]

18650 but i have the negative end up in the air so the battery is slopping down to the positive end

[Karma]

Mine charged fine, but I've just checked and it does seem to be on a bit of a slope

I thought I would need the spacer with my 14500 but it seemed to fit better without it

When does this learning curve end

[dave]

Possibly when you have mastered making a coil for the Odysseus

[vereybowring]

Just got an Xtar WP2 II today and it is really good.
I was using a TR001 which was fine but I noticed recently(in the last week) a pair of 18650's that had previously been charging fine had a situation where one was charged to 4.16 and the other to 4.19.
I agree not a big deal but before that charge both had charged to hovering between 4.19 and 4.2 when metered.
Tried more pairs of batteries and got similar results with one battery charging to a different final voltage than the other every time.
It was also random in which channel charged low (4.16) or high (4.19).

The xtar has so far charged 2 pairs of 18650's to the 4.19/4.20 hovering voltage (the same batteries which the trustfire was charging less regularly).

Not a huge deal but I do use the batteries in pairs (in parallel) so my teeny mind likes the batteries to be at the same level when I use them even if the difference is small.

[Roger]

Apr 3, 2012 19:10:22 GMT tafilad said:

Yes the instructions are okish .I have had to put the battery on an odd angel to get it to charge,Great quick reply from Daz,think i will get a new battery and try that as the battery is now charging on an odd angle

Sorry coming late to this, I found that flat top batteries needed to be angled up at the bottom slightly so the top makes contact. I solved it by using a couple of small (old PC innards) screws screwed in where the spacers go at the + end. End of problem.