18650 Battery Charger

[Toddy]

Hi all,

I'm after a new charger for my 18650 batteries.

The one I currently have charges a single 18650 battery at a time. It works fine but its not particually quick. It can take about 7 hours to charge 1 battery. The batteries I have are Efest 3500mah.

I've heard differing oppinions on chargers some say faster charging destroys the battery but I'm hoping to improve on 7 hours if possible.

Any recomendations would be greatly recieved.

Thank you

[Perpetua]

I'm sure the experts will be along to give you their thoughts Toddy . . . . I've just bought one of these as a back up, back up:

www.fasttech.com/p/2288701

So I may sob if it doesn't meet with their approval.

[wight]

Cambridge vaping have a few chargers in the closing down sale, definitely worth looking

[MrDJ]

hi
ive got the nitecore 4 bay D4 charger which is great. 2 batteries at a time are faster than 3 or 4 at a time.
takes my three 25R's 2-3 hours for a full charge.

£24.99 from sr vapes www.sr-vapes.co.uk/Chargers/cat3034024_2848168.aspx

[Deleted]

+1 for nitecore

[Bob]

+1 for Nitecore i4 or d4 (the latest one)

[Toddy]

Feb 18, 2016 11:47:24 GMT Perpetua said:

I'm sure the experts will be along to give you their thoughts Toddy . . . . I've just bought one of these as a back up, back up:

www.fasttech.com/p/2288701

So I may sob if it doesn't meet with their approval.

Hi Perpetua,

Thats great thank you for the info.

[Toddy]

Feb 18, 2016 11:50:24 GMT wight said:

Cambridge vaping have a few chargers in the closing down sale, definitely worth looking

Cheers for that I'll take a look.

[Toddy]

Feb 18, 2016 11:51:47 GMT MrDJ said:

hi
ive got the nitecore 4 bay D4 charger which is great. 2 batteries at a time are faster than 3 or 4 at a time.
takes my three 25R's 2-3 hours for a full charge.

£24.99 from sr vapes www.sr-vapes.co.uk/Chargers/cat3034024_2848168.aspx

Looks good, thats a considerable quicker charge than I'm currently getting.

Thank for the info.

[nanotm]

I have the xtar vc4 and it takes about 2 hours to push 3 batts from 3.6v to 4.2 when run from my pc's usb port, the mains version is apparently quicker but I like the way this one works since I have the pc running anyway

www.gearbest.com/chargers/pp_160440.html

as you will see if you look around the site they also do the nitecore d4 for £17, when I purchased the xtar it was only £12 though which is why I bought it over the nitecore /

[Deleted]

Get the nitecore, you won't regret it

[VapingBad]

The Nitecore 4 bay charges are fine, but slow, I would look for one that can charge all bays at 1 Amp like the Xtars above, they are not the fastest, but 1 A is probably as fast as you want with EFest batteries.   I use 2 A with Sony VTCs and Samsung 25Rs and they only raise by 10 C temp and charge in 70 & 90 minuets respectively.

A recent thread about the same allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/61454/charger

There is also an AAE-C guide linked in my footer.

[Toddy]

Feb 18, 2016 13:28:43 GMT VapingBad said:

The Nitecore 4 bay charges are fine, but slow, I would look for one that can charge all bays at 1 Amp like the Xtars above, they are not the fastest, but 1 A is probably as fast as you want with EFest batteries.   I use 2 A with Sony VTCs and Samsung 25Rs and they only raise by 10 C temp and charge in 70 & 90 minuets respectively.

A recent thread about the same allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/61454/charger

There is also an AAE-C guide linked in my footer.

Thanks for that, really useful information. I've just read your guide its really informative.

Might also grab some Samsung batteries.

Cheers.

[nanotm]

Feb 18, 2016 13:51:38 GMT Toddy said:

Feb 18, 2016 13:28:43 GMT VapingBad said:

The Nitecore 4 bay charges are fine, but slow, I would look for one that can charge all bays at 1 Amp like the Xtars above, they are not the fastest, but 1 A is probably as fast as you want with EFest batteries.   I use 2 A with Sony VTCs and Samsung 25Rs and they only raise by 10 C temp and charge in 70 & 90 minuets respectively.

A recent thread about the same allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/61454/charger

There is also an AAE-C guide linked in my footer.

Thanks for that, really useful information. I've just read your guide its really informative.

Might also grab some Samsung batteries.

Cheers.

if your desperate to get the batteries then either torchy (ebay) or puremist (vape shop) sell pairs of 25r's for around a tenner or if you can wait a few weeks get them from gearbest 4 for about the same price (all have genuine cells in my experience) I bought some from other places but they just don't work properly so I wont be doing that again /

[*-SARIN-*]

XTAR or NiteCore, just like batteries, don't skimp on the charger or you're more likely to face the wrath of dodgy wiring and non-existent safety protection.