Depends a bit on what you want, the Opus can do a lot more than this charger and works better at NiMH.
But if mainly want to work with LiIon this charger is very easy to use and can do what is required. For small LiIon cells it is significantly superior to Opus (No 3A pulses).
It can also be used for NiMH, but Opus chargers are very good at exactly filling NiMH cells, i.e. if you mainly uses NiMH I would recommend a Opus charger.
yes , here it is… thanks HKJ! seems that it’s a good contender for mainly liion, and preferable to the old 260, but the resistence stuff have not been improved, nevermind i guess we all knew it in advance.
Does the display scroll between occupied slots? With no LEDs or dedicated indicators per slot, I’d imagine it’d be quite inconvenient since you’d have to push the button of every slot to see the status of the operation.
Also, I assume all slots are independent, i.e. you can do different operations on each one, and charge at different currents (e.g. charge one lost at 1000, charge one slot at 300, quick test one slot and full test the last one).
Another great work. I really like your technical review but I think you should do better conclusions, maybe positives end negatives or more elaborate.
In this case its a good conclusion but in other reviews it could be improved.
HKJ, thanks for the review. I have the Nitecore Digicharger D2 which I am very happy with. But it doesn’t analyze the battery capacity so I am looking for a new charger and the 500 might be it. Do you also do a price comparison to see which charger is the best value for the features?
I think you misunderstood HKJ ’s work, it does the analytics stuff, but you have to draw your conclusions… the numbers are all there, but you have to see what’s suits more your needs and your habits, what you charge most, 10440, or 26650, or NiMh, or 4.35V li-ion etc… and see what’s best for you.
Thanks for the review!! I’ve been waiting for this.
HKJ: I have a “Hobby style” 13.8V 25A power supply in which I have all my 12V devices connected. So far they have been working great but I don’t a way to prove that it will not give me any trouble on the long run.
Do you think feeding 13.8V into the Lii-500 is safe?
I always tend to stay away from the generic 12V adapters because once I had one overheat and melt the plastic casing.