[M4D deal ACTIVE] LiitoKala Lii-500S groupbuy

You too pal. I’ll call you soon my friend :slight_smile:

TY…. looking forward to it. :beer:

Dang,
Hope it wasn’t me. I’m offended that everyone is always offended about something. I bet someone owes me something for something. Now I’m angry. See how this works.

Just to stay on subject so I don’t get my face bit off. I really use my Lii-500 a lot. I have 2 of them. With the couple of added features on the new unit, it will make this a very popular charger especially for the price.

I ordered the 500S based on the information on the Liitokala website that indicated it did include the 300mA charging current option, like the old model. I later emailed Liitokala to ask if that information was correct, when I found the instruction manual and saw it did not say the 300mA option is available in the new model. The answer from Emily indicates they eliminated the 300mA option.

I was at first upset about the incorrect information on their website, until I realized that my 16340 cells have between 650 and 750mAH capacity, and my AAA cells have a minimum of 750. A 500mA charging current will be fine for those cells, and I’ll charge my 18650’s at 1A. The cell manufacturers say a quality cell will remain perfectly healthy and maintain its full number of charging cycles when charged at up to 0.8C in a quality charger, and even above that rate in most cases. I don’t think I need to worry, given that 500mA will be below 0.8C for my smallest cells, and I don’t re-charge my small cells often. And this charger has very good over-heating and over-charging protection, as well.

500mA is about perfect for AAA NiMH cells.

However, for smaller lithium-ion cells(10440), it’s pushing it a bit.

Warning: off-topic, but still relevant to BG purchases.

Yea, I’ve noticed this new “behavior” just over the past week or two. It’s ridiculous and probably not even profitable, since it gives customers a shock when they see the checkout price and they may simply cancel the order out of annoyance.

I added a $12 item to my cart and the default shipping charge was over $14. Do they think that such a tactic will sell more products? I felt slightly angry and highly insulted, which I wouldn’t consider to be an effective business strategy.

This is hopefully a programming or configuration error, but if not then it’s just Banggood being Banggood.

@ leftdisconnected

I know what you mean, when I first saw that I thought… “do they really think ‘we’ are that stupid”? :smiley:

I think they’re hoping we wouldn’t notice.

The flip side is they probably have just as many newbies who order and expect their item in 2-3 days. In those cases defaulting to faster shipping would reduce a lot of customer service issues.

What voltage for lion does this charger terminate?
I hope under 4.2
I ruined my opus I need a new charger

My old one does. About 4.18V - 4.2V, depending on battery.

Just curious… how did you “ruin your opus”??

Perfect,
Inserted a cell backwards. It fried it.

:+1: …… Ouch, that sux. :frowning:

On that topic, for those who already own Lii-500 and are now getting the Lii-500S, battery direction has been reversed. But at least the charger is supposed to have reverse insertion protection.

I how to never need the protection again haha
Thanks, I ordered one

It’s good they put the direction back to “normal” on their new version.

However, I’ve accidentally put cell in backwards in the old Lii-500, and it just refused to charge. It didn’t fry anything.

Thank you for the deal, I just placed my order!

Can it load longer cells than lii-500?

I handles 21700 supposedly.

Not that I needed another charger, I ordered one because I’m a boy who loves his toys.

Signed, Beaver Cleaver