I inserted a pair of 18650b’s equally drained to 3.6 v.
In one slot, the battery is charging ok, while in the other the charging stopped at 3.72v, showing 3 solid LEDs.
Sometimes it mistakes a Ni-MH cell for a Li-ion and overheats it pretty much, so I have to keep an eye on it - if the third LED does not start flashing after several hours - I pull the battery out and measure the voltage with а DMM.
Thanks for the info.
Now it worked, tried it a couple of days when I tried before.
I did post to there support about it earlier also, probably like many others
And it was nice to know get/confirmed it was a legit charger.
I have the same thing regarding the magnetic parts on my D4, only the positive is non-magentic, negative and the rails are magnetic and the validation check says:
"Invalid request! Registration unsuccessful.
This product with serial number of 8462548401078217 had been registered for warranty service on (03-01-2015 11:30) . If the first verification attempt wasn't carried out by you, please contact your seller before taking further action."
I googled my code and got a few hits including this:
"Finally, after validating the scratch code 8462 5484 0107 8217 on our validation page(http://charger.nitecore.com/validation), it showed that the first-time validation happened in last year and not operated by our sales! That means it is a counterfeit charger!!!"
"In this case, we think many counterfeit chagers are using this fake validation code( 8462 5484 0107 8217)!"
I see there is also an earlier post with someone who also got a charger with the same validation code
Thanks, I had a good look around Google wasn't anything concrete apart from the charge rate, that link seems to imply that just below 1.6v is a suitable termination voltage?
I charged my Duracell AA's on my new fake D4 and the cells didn't get overly warm, the termination voltage was just around 1.56v, the charging has finished and the 4 cells are now at 1.5/1.5/1.51/1.5v
Hmmm, fill the fake electronics with banned substances, ship them across national borders, carefully vacuum them out, sell the white powder one place and the fake electronics on eBay …. a business plan? Nah, that would be too much trouble.
Hahaha, maybe the guy that made them had a sense of humour and a cocaine habit
:D
Those that are clued up with eBay, this D4 charger took forever to arrive so I had to open an item not received dispute, that's still open and I have communicated to the seller via that case that the charger is fake but it would appear the correct thing is to close that dispute and then open an item not as described?
But I know from past experience to be careful though because eBay is a right pita when you do things incorrectly, I'm worried that seeing the item is well passed its estimated delivery time if I close this dispute I may not be able to open another item not as described dispute and then not be able to get a refund - that would make me mad as a snake!!!
I escalated the same item not received dispute and explained the charger had arrived but it was fake, I got a full refund shortly thereafter.
Here's some more handy info in regard to Nitrecore fakes, the video especially shows the difference between fake and genuine, my fake charger was identical to the one in the video: