New charger required

[minime]

Well it's looking like my old charger is giving up.

what is a good charger now days must be able to charge 3 battery's at once.

cheers Mark.

[qsplan]

well... would go for something like that... eu.nkon.nl/charger/multichemistry/opus-bt-c3100-v2-2-intelligent-battery-charger-analyzer.html

[smarties]

Torchy has an 8 cell for about 40 quid and myepack have the Nitecores, best to make sure you're buying genuine with chargers and batteries.

[minime]

Is the d4 a good charger now days.

[smarties]

I'm not a battery or charger expert minime I still use an Efest Soda charger I got from Torchy, I seem to remember something about fake Nitecore chargers a while back but I don't remember anything negative about the genuine ones.

Where are the battery police when you need them lol

[minime]

Haha I'm sure they will be along once they drag there lazy ass out of bed lol.

[VapingBad]

Personally I would go for fast over the number of bays, I use a XTar SP2 to charge batteries for my rolo and can do a set of VTC4s in 2:20, but only have to be around the charger for 70 mins at a time. A true 1 A 4 bay may match or beat that speed, but most charge at < 1 A when using all 4 bays. Sorry no specific recommendations other than XTar in general.

[Perpetua]

I bought one of these in the CNY Smash n Grab minime . . . . .

www.fasttech.com/p/2288701

[b1mble]

Not a fan of Nitecore chargers myself. I'd not buy one that hasn't been well reviewed here.

[nanotm]

the xtar vc4 charges at up to 2 amps (based on the power supply its connected to) single cell it will sling 2 amps at it, 2 cells it will chuck an amp at each, 3 or 4 and tops out at half amp each, also since it has a usb >power lead you can use it in a car via a fag lighter >usb device or off your pc /laptop or off a proper wall outlet the only difference is the amount of current its drawing.

one thing I have noticed with mine is sometimes you have to restart the charger to get it running at full power but that's down to the power outlet rather than the charger I think .

[Lee]

I recently asked about chargers myself

xtar were recommended, but require external usb source

i4 and d4 chargers were also recommended

Ended up ordering a d4 from ft that also included 2 x 25r's
www.fasttech.com/p/2379501

Sweden Post still have it 

[VapingBad]

Apr 23, 2016 11:53:11 GMT Lee said:

I recently asked about chargers myself

xtar were recommended, but require external usb source

i4 and d4 chargers were also recommended

Ended up ordering a d4 from ft that also included 2 x 25r's
www.fasttech.com/p/2379501

Sweden Post still have it 

I4 and D4 are very slow with 4 batteries, apart from they are OK.

[VapingBad]

Apr 23, 2016 11:04:52 GMT nanotm said:

the xtar vc4 charges at up to 2 amps (based on the power supply its connected to) single cell it will sling 2 amps at it, 2 cells it will chuck an amp at each, 3 or 4 and tops out at half amp each, also since it has a usb >power lead you can use it in a car via a fag lighter >usb device or off your pc /laptop or off a proper wall outlet the only difference is the amount of current its drawing.

one thing I have noticed with mine is sometimes you have to restart the charger to get it running at full power but that's down to the power outlet rather than the charger I think .

They never charge at 2 A according to XTar unless they have been revised, 1 A max www.xtarlight.com/05-chanpin/p-001-1.asp?styleid=340. 

[Ripshod]

Confirmed. I have the VC4 and it never charges a single cell over 1amp. Still a good charger though

[nanotm]

Apr 23, 2016 12:58:16 GMT VapingBad said:

Apr 23, 2016 11:04:52 GMT nanotm said:

the xtar vc4 charges at up to 2 amps (based on the power supply its connected to) single cell it will sling 2 amps at it, 2 cells it will chuck an amp at each, 3 or 4 and tops out at half amp each, also since it has a usb >power lead you can use it in a car via a fag lighter >usb device or off your pc /laptop or off a proper wall outlet the only difference is the amount of current its drawing.

one thing I have noticed with mine is sometimes you have to restart the charger to get it running at full power but that's down to the power outlet rather than the charger I think .

They never charge at 2 A according to XTar unless they have been revised, 1 A max www.xtarlight.com/05-chanpin/p-001-1.asp?styleid=340. 

well the charger I have was drawing 2amps to charge a single 18650 (it says its providing 1 amp to the battery on the display) and took under an hour to charge the battery, normally it will draw a few milliamps more than its delivering in charge current (the usb power outlet I have details what current is being supplied) for instance right now the power draw on the outlet is 2.15 amps charging 2 x sony vc4's at 1 amp each, when it was charging a single vc4 it was pulling the same 2.15amps (nothing else plugged into the power outlet in both cases) yet it will only pull 1.65 amps when charging 3 batteries or 2.15amps when charging 4 batteries, thus I must conclude that it was actually pushing the full 2 amps into the single battery last time (particularly as it was fully charged in under an hour having received around 1650mah)

perhaps that's down to being lucky enough to receive a revised box (on startup it displays ver1.03) ive no idea, other than it passed the genuine product verification check online