You would think an outfit like Nitecore would have an engineer/development/and test department as least as good as HKJ and would not put out chargers that were as unprepared for distribution as this one is. That’s kind of pathetic, and somewhat alarming. Cheap Chinese, well somewhat understandable, or at least expected. But when the ‘big guns’ start screwing up it’s time for concern.
Maybe the reason behind high termination is to make it appear to charge faster, but the I don’t understand the Ni-Mh inconsistency.
And really, how hard is to make a 2x 1A Li-ion charger? Nitecore seems to have forever struggled with that. They’re very good making flashlights but disastrous when it comes to batteries and chargers, maybe they just hire a third party manufacturer and put the brand on the products.
The phase when they established themselves as a market leader, with inventive and quality stuff, is officially over. Now they’re just maximizing the profit…
I hope they do fix what ever short comings this charger does have.
For a novice user getting up to speed on charging can be made easier by a charger with fewer readouts kike this one. but it must too be free of the problems HJK pointed out.
I doubt they will be able to “fix” that it cannot charge 2 cells with 1A simultaneously.
It takes 20 hours to charge two 26650s and render the ability to handle large cells rather useless.
My most used lights use 26650 batteries and I use two XTAR SP2 chargers that can charge at two amps for each of the two channels. The XTAR SP2 can also handle 70mm plus batteries with room to spare.
Nothing wrong with my Fenix ARE-C2. I have had it 3 years and each slot can charge up to 1A and it has that spring to activate the 1A. Smaller batteries charge fine and ALL the batteries charge faster than any other charger that I have,N’core, Efest and K’Power. :+1:
Yaay thanks HKJ for the updated re-test… I have been using mine since Late december. I think I got one of the updated ones from Amazon. But I am not exactly sure how to tell. It certainly seems to fully charge all my cells. Even over-charge my NiMH eneloops… which seem to be warmer than typical after charging. I have other chargers though for NiMH so its not a big deal for me.
I bought my NEW i2 a few weeks back and I have been itching to void my warranty. I’ve got to open this thing up and implant some test leads after reading this thread and find out which charger I bought.
Sadly, even though Nitecore sent a “fixed” charger to HKJ to review, imagine now many flaky chargers are out there in warehouse’s around the world waiting to be sold.
I liked my charger before I read this thread, now I have a project on my hands, darn it!