When you move around and depending on how you move around it can also be very bad for other parts of the body, especially after a large dose.
And the next morning can be bad for the head and stomach 
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But if you can handle it responsible, the risk is minimal (Like LiIon)
Exactly good beer is like good li-ion battery :)
I might need to clarify something lost in translation. “Gone on beer” could be interpreted in English, Australian English anyway, as well and truly drunk. While I assume the meaning you intended was simply free of concern over the battery charging and having a beer?
But I agree with all of it. Except the charger, I have no idea until I see a review with charts and stuff. No hints yet HJK?
And you said you had an accident while testing it, what kind of accident?
I understood it without any amount specification, i.e. it could be 1 beer or 20 beers.
It looks good until now.
I simulated a battery with too high voltage, when checking the voltage readout (At least I believe that was the reason). The discharge function is gone and I believe that this problem might have spoiled the resistance measurement.
Ooops!
I am not into English language since it is not my mother tongue :). But I have thought about that as drinking a beer in a bar while Charger does all the rest...
LiitoKala R.I.P... How much high voltage? So he does not have over current protection?
Exactly. Accidents happens, even if I try to be careful. Luckily the charger was not that expensive, I get much more depressed when I blow something to a couple of 100 dollars (This happens very seldom) .
Probably around 4.5 volt, when turning the knot on the power supply it is very easy to turn a bit to high. This does not have anything with over current protection to do, but the charger is simply not designed to handle more voltage than a LiIon battery gives.
Poor little fella... I really like him...
If I had disliked the little fella, I would not have ordered a new one, but only published my current results.
But I believe it is worth doing a good job on him.
That is very promising coming from you. 
I’m just worried about heat. It claims it can discharge two cells at one amp each, that’s going to generate some heat, yet there’s no fan. For a $25 charger I’m not above buying a small CPU fan and cutting it into the body and circuitry, but it would be nice to see it there.
I do believe the discharge current is "only" 0.5A, but it gets fairly warm doing that.
HKJ,
Charger has selectable discharge current modes. 500/1000mah (it really charges/discharges faster than on 500mah mode, but however I can not check does it really charges at that current, you will have to do that :) ).
I will quote myself:
"How does discharging/capacity testing works? Very simple… Once you fully charged your battery(4,2V) put it in desired channel and wait few seconds… When 500mah charge blinking display appears press and hold mode button for 3-4 seconds, and then it will go to “discharge 500mah blinking mode” in which with one more click you can turn to "1000mah discharge mode".
It will start discharging in selected current mode, and it will give you real time readings. The most interesting part here is when it discharges battery it will instantly start charging process again. What that means? That means that you can put freshly charged battery in and charger will discharge/test cell capacity and it will automatically charge it. So put your 18650 battery in discharge mode and go to sleep and in the morning you will have freshly charged battery with tested capacity."
I am charging in one channel at 1 A of current while discharging/testing at same current in other one, and heat dissipation is good... It is warm but it is not hot... In fact for comparison it runs much cooler than sanyo nimh charger(frying hot when charging nimh), and lot of generic li-ion budget chargers that have fully enclosed housing without any air circulation so heat is trapped in them while on liitokala heat is escaping through that little holes on its body. So on 500mah charging/discharging it should be even less warmer than on 1A.
Heat happens but it circulates through that little holes from the bottom and upper side of charger.
So you fried something in your charger. It can not be hot... It can only be warm...
I will report in this thread if anything bad happens(30 pcs of panasonic ncr18650pf is coming these days so that will be real test for it) but with my liitokala so far so good...
From the manual I got the impression that it is the charge current you select, also when in discharge mode.
When I get the new copy I will verify that.
Is there a code to enter when checking out?
liitokala, please stop spamming the whole forum with links, or... ;)
Just add the link to your own thread in the Commercial Seller's Spot and remove these other posts with "Delete"-button below the message. Thanks in advance.
Can I get one with an Australian plug?
It looks like his spam twin just got the boot. Perhaps we will hear from the third evil brother next. Im taking bets…
My litokala is still going strong... It charged/discharged whole lot of batteries.
Yesterday I over-discharged Sanyo UR2600FM battery by accident (I used IR illuminator and did not notice).
Voltage of over discharged battery was around 2V.
I know I should not do following but I have put this battery into lito kala...
What I did notice that internal resistance of mentioned cell raised to 75mr while it has 45 in original state...
Obviously chemistry mixed up with discharging...
I charged and it works!
But most interesting thing is that it still has around 2500 mah in discharge test... So I will use it. I am not feel like throwing that in a trash.
It should work good for regular flashlights up to 2A?
It holds voltage well and it is still on 4,17V.
i just got this charger today!
based on your guys’ reviews of it it looked like the perfect charger for me (it might be better if it had a 4 port version but not that important). i also just did a review of it on my youtube here: http://youtu.be/Uj_z2nM6Zck
thanks guys for recommending it as i really am looking forward to testing my recycled batteries with this thing!
i also see that both the charger (and power supply?) have phillips screws so being the curious cat that i am i will be posting some pics of its internals on my youtube and most likely here too.
so my story is i was looking around for a good 18650 tester because i got fed up with using crap wallmart and dollar store flashlights (the final straw was when i had to rummage around in the dark while walking the dog to find all the AAA’s that had scattered when i dropped my bike light :~ ). so i was thinking about getting a decent 18650 flashlight (the NiteCore MT2C to be specific) and as my work supports alot of laptops they also recycle alot of laptop batteries that tell windows they are no good when they have only been power cycled that magical number of times 
so i take them home tear out that crap circuit board and test them with my tenergy TB6B balance charger/discharger and i have quite a few packs that are good but because of the arrangement of the cells they arent very useable as a solid pack (cough lenovo thinkpad cough) but if i had a proper way to test the cells (as magnets or clamps arent really a proper test) i can weed the bad from the good and have free batteries for my new flashlight (i havent ordered it yet as if i dont have any i will buy a nitecore 18650 for it at the same time) so we shall see my luck with these cells!