That’s why I consider my Opus BT-3100 so far the best-designed of them all. Long press (5 sec) the ‘Display’ button if you want the backlight to be ON all the time, otherwise, it stays off YET the LCD screen shows ALL channels doing their thing all the time. Beautiful UI, I should say.
Should be. The Lii-500's display backlight also works briefly, but as it is a classic passive LCD it has good visibility without backlight. On the other hand the new Lii-500S display looks nice, features a bigger screen with some senseless fancy graphics and stingy information for its size. If you are right the Lii-500S display will have an easy fix like this one meant for the Lii-500 (check Q35 with a gate voltage injecting resistor, I made it with 470Ω; the smaller the closer the brightness is to standard):
Great!
So does the setting stay even after you power it off or does it revert to the display off after 15 sec. again? (Can’t try it myself because I haven’t received it yet).
Perhaps there is but it’s not in the manual.
Try every single long keypress and key combination you can think of and let us know if you’ve succeeded.
Might as well be something like:
Press channel 1 button 68 times, then put your left pinky toe on the mode button while holding the Current button with your tongue for 2 minutes.
Just a warning to anybody that wants to get a Lii-500s. It doesn’t measure and display the internal resistance of the batteries. I know that function didn’t work good enough in the Lii-500.
If you’re reading the charger reviews on lygte-info.dk you’ll see that especially the lower priced chargers hardly ever do a good job when it comes to reading resistance.
I think they made a good decision by leaving it out instead of keeping the feature while it’s not working.
so what should i buy ? the 500 or the 500S there is sooooo much information in this thread for experts that non experts dosent understand or should i choose another charger ?
Depends what you need.
If you don’t need discharge and test modes and are just looking for a decent charger then you might as well buy a more simple charger.
But for $21.90 including shipping the 500S is a great deal.
I’m very happy with it.