[M4D deal ACTIVE] LiitoKala Lii-500S groupbuy

Did they cancel your order? Last time I got out of an out stock message they offered the choice for refund or wait for restock

I got an “Out of Stock email” yesterday, IIRC. It gave three choices…

  • 1. Wait
  • 2. Change to another product
  • 3. Full Refund

Being the patient type & wanting the charger…. I chose “WAIT”. . :wink:

I got the same thing twice. One last week which I said I will wait, and one yesterday which I answered with the same response. What the hell is going on over there?

I already sent banggood a message to get a date when it's back in stock.

Yeah… I got two emails also… about 8 hours apart. :smiley:
I also answered both & sent them a message from my account too.

I figure the price we paid is worth the wait. As I said a while back, mine was not ‘scheduled’ to be processed until 18 June anyway.
So I figure it will be before to long.

Martin said he has asked…. he will probably get a pretty definate answer as to when they will be in stock again. :slight_smile:

Received my charger today. Great charger! Love the display. Easy to learn the user interface. I’m sure I’ll get a lot of use out of it.

I am interested to see a review by someone who has the time to carefully test the ability of this charger to adequately fill NiMH cells without overcharging them. I know this will be my go-to charger for Li-ions, at least, and possibly also NiMH, if it seems to do a decent job at filling those safely, as well.

Congrats!! :beer: . When did you order??

banggood told me that a batch will be sent today..

Thanks for the info!! :beer:

I ordered the charger on May 31.

I also ordered May 31, but the tracking number that just shows the shipper is waiting to receive the item from Banggood, so it will be a surprise when it finally arrives.

Thanks. :+1: . I ordered 5 June so I am waiting on restocking.

Code has expired. Per Banggood. Was going to pull the trigger this morning. Maybe its the promo for 13% off.

Will the code be valid at a later date?

yes - PROMO sales do deactivate other codes - usually my codes do work after those sales...

For those who already received their Lii-500S charger, have you tried its NiMH Fast tester? Does that test show too much capacity for NiMH? AS HKJ revealed reviewing the old Lii-500 Review of Charger LiitoKala Engineer Lii-500

Just got an email from Banggood stating my order has shipped. I’m really looking forward to getting this new charger.

Me too, mine just shipped as well!

That’s not surprising, considering that is a “charge capacity” test, not a discharge test. NiMH charging is very inefficient during the last part of charging, and a lot of energy put into them is just wasted as heat. That’s normal with all NiMH cells. So, the charger has to put in a lot more charge capacity than the real capacity of the battery, in order to fully charge it.

A discharge test is the proper way to analyse cells, especially NiMH.

Yep got shipping notification also. Now waiting for it to be picked up by the shipper & start it’s journey.

I agree. One of the reasons I took advantage of this deal and bought this charger, after waiting years to buy a new charger, is that the reviews of the Lii-500 showed it does not overcharge NiMH cells by continuously pumping current into them to make sure they are completely charged to capacity in every case. I would rather have a charger that errs on the side of not completely filling a cell than a charger that trickle-charges the cells to death to max out their charge capacity.