Got a new charger-Miboxer C4-12, 4 slot X 3A/slot, total 12A output

Flashlight testing, review. Stormy nights with downed trees and a mess to clean up, charge a lot of cells up and head out into the night. Charging cells for 2 BLF Q8’s, or one BLF GT. There’s a lot of reasons to have an 8 cell charger. I have 3 already, and it’s not enough even with the 4 bay and 2 bay chargers I have to assist them.

Was just talking with a friend earlier today and he’s looking for a good 8 bay charger at a decent price, he does a lot of reviews and his wife and son use up his lights, lol.

The 8 slot charger sounds nice for Giggles, for charging two Q8’s at a time, or for charging all 6 of the AA’s in my DSLR battery grip in a single charger. I prefer charging a set of batteries in the same charger, and this gets larger sets done in a single shot.

Doh! Leaftye beat me to it -

Or maybe some people would like to charge up all 8 cells for their BLF GT ….

Sure, you could do 4 at a time like Lexel indicated but you’ve just doubled your wait time. Lets say you have a 4 slot (1 amp per cell) charger and 8x 3000mah 18650. That’s a lot of hours to charge batteries for 1 torch (not to mention having to change over cells halfway). This 8 cell charger would look appealing after that.

It would be great if new C8 would use same power supply as C4-12 and have option to charge 4 cells at 3A and 8 cells at 1,5A . Man that’s what I’m imagining a dream charger. You could charge all 8 cells for BLF GT in 2 hurs if using 30Q-s :smiley:

I would definitely like to review one of those when they become available for testing….

8 cell charger? Sign me up!!! Interested for the GT light!

I’ve got 20 years in night security. Guards don’t share flashlights. I’ve never seen it at least.

1A over 8 bays (with multiple charging rate options) sounds like a dream charger to me as well.

That would mean .125A/bay, right? Just kidding :beer:

I do like the 10 different charging rates.
Li-ion:
0.1A/0.2A/0.3A/0.5A/0.8A/1.0A/1.5A/2.0A/2.5A/3.0A

You can pretty much charge any sized cell at its highest safest level for faster charge times. Nobody likes waiting. Lol

Great for charging 8 10440’s at the same time! :wink:

The Miboxer C8 charging 8pcs battery at 800ma Simultaneously

and charging 4pcs battery at 1.5A Simultaneously

12 different charging rates.
Li-ion and Ni-MH Ni-Cd
0.1A/0.2A/0.3A/0.4A/0.5A/0.6A/0.7A/0.8A/0.9A/1.0A/1.2A/1.5A

I think a lot of people will be disappointed with the lower charge rates. This is half the power of the C4-12 instead of double the power.

.8A is fine with me. I won’t be using the GT during the day anyway. I normally charge cells at .5

I find those rates perfectly fine. 18650’s would charge at sufficient rates to not be slow, good rates for AA NiMH cells too. When I have a big event photo shoot I’m charging up 40 cells, to have another 8 bay charger that will take AA NiMH would be very important to my preparation. As an 18650 charger it would be a viable back-up to the C4-12. Nicely done. :wink:

I think the C8 is an extension of the older C4 charger which did 4 x 0.8A.

I mistakenly though it would be an extension of the C4-12.

if you want it quick get 2 C4-12 for 8 slots

Me? No thanks, I’m set for chargers.

There were a lot of people on the GT thread that were looking for a 8 slot charger that could do 1.5A to 2A per cell.

There are already 8 slot chargers on the market that can do higher output than the C8. The Gyrfalcon All-88 does 8 x 1A.

I got excited because I thought the C8 might let me charge my many 26650 cells at 3A each.

Oh :weary: I was also under the impression that it was an extension of the C4-12. Not so appealing to me now.

I have a c4-12 on route from 11.11, looking forward to replacing my VC4.

I’d be interested in an 8 bay but it would need to be at least as powerful as the c4-12, so 8 bays at 1.5A.

If not I can’t see any point, better with 2x c4-12 as mentioned above.

8 bays at 3A would be awesome but I appreciate that’s probably about 120w required :open_mouth: