Hi, I have an older Nitecore i4 (maybe 3 years old). I had a problem with it that I never solved and put it away. Now I have use for it again and thought I would run my “problem” past you guys.
I posted this question in an egig forum back in 2013 and never received an answer.
Here is me quoting my own question and the best I could to to describe what happened. I did not own a multimeter at the time so I gave up…. I have one now….
“I bought an Intellicharger i4 and it worked just fine for a few days then this happened. I was charging 3 18350 batteries 2 older Efest button top and one brand new AW that I bought with the charger. I checked in on the progress of the charge and all the bays had The LED indicators at 2 bars full and flashing. I came back a little while later and all the LED indicators were dark. I took the batteries out and put them back in and the LEDS remained dark. Those batteries don’t work in my MOD now. I have 3 more EFest batteries I have been using since then and in the last 2 days the same thing has happened to all 3. They start to charge, LEDS are flashing and then the LEDs go dark and won’t light up anymore and the batteries don’t work.
I tried all these batteries in a friends Trustfire charger and they are all showing that they are charged. (Green)
Is the Intellicharger killing my batteries?
I only have Mech MODS so I can’t check the voltage.
Any ideas of what’s going on here?”
any help or guidance would be appreciated. I have a multimeter now. I would like to not have to buy a new charger. I just got “into” flashlights very recently and need to charge more cells!!!
Is there a way to test the charger to make sure it’s working as it should.