Battery charge time

[chrisjw]

With the Riva 1100, it says to charge them initially for 8 hours...........to charge after that, am I right in saying 2-3 hours should suffice?

[kibbutzangel]

Aye Chris. The charger should tell you when they're done. They don't take long so long as you have one available to use. If they're both out of charge then it'll feel like forever

[maccafan]

It depends on how much you have run them down..

But 3-4 hours should charge any fully run down battery easily..

[Karma]

Jun 5, 2012 12:29:24 GMT chrisjw said:

With the Riva 1100, it says to charge them initially for 8 hours...........to charge after that, am I right in saying 2-3 hours should suffice?

should be, just keep an eye on them, does the light not change colour or something to let you know when charging is complete?

[leftfield]

Li-ions have no memory effect. When you've charged them and the charger/battery light turns off - that's it charged and leaving it on longer will do nothing more. The initial 8 hours thing is wrong as they come with a factory charge and again, it is not needed to charge them so long as they have no memory effect.

[chrisjw]

I'm not sure that the LED light on the charger goes out once charged..............

[chrisjw]

I think when the light changes from red to green it's charged, as is the norm, but the light remains on as far as I'm aware

[Karma]

Jun 5, 2012 20:10:17 GMT chrisjw said:

I think when the light changes from red to green it's charged, as is the norm, but the light remains on as far as I'm aware

yep, you're right the led on the charger changes to green once charged

[maccafan]

Depends on the charger electronics..

Some older chargers do turn the led off when charged..

[beautycat]

Hi chrisi have the riva 1100 brothers poss cousins of your twins. When it stops vaping well I put it on charge. Red light shows. It takes about 2-3 hours and when the green light comes on they're done #icon_thumbsup#