Fake NITECORE Chargers [2016]

My crap-core now has a screw loose.

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.

Beware of this crap, guys.

Sorry to hear that, are you going to try to buy a real one to replace it?

mrstealyourgains
I have an Imax b6 mini and a Liitokala, so I use crap-core only because it lies around

That validation page,
Validation page: Validation link

Linked on second page here,
ID Guide

Do not work.

They have this, but sort of render the use of that code useless, but maybe I missing something here?

This inf on this page is sort of a drop in the ocean,
Authentic dealers

-lyse99

Validation page works
I did valid my Nitecore D4 there

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 :slight_smile:

And it was nice to know get/confirmed it was a legit charger.

-lyse99

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

What is the correct max termination voltage for AAA and AA Nimh cells?

LMGTFY

http://lygte-info.dk/info/batteryChargingNiMH%20UK.html

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?

Basically the charger shouldn’t cook the cells, too much heat kills them.

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

Curiosity got the better of me and I opened my D4 up, I found my "NITE COKE"

Some weird white power all over the board and all the capacitors are stamped NITECORE, so there goes that.

Also I confirmed via a Google search that only the battery negative should be magnetic, the contact rail should not.

Here are some pics of my NITE COKE's main board:

Here are some more views:

The eBay seller that sold me the charger is here:

http://www.ebay.com/usr/ornahouse

454000 ratings and still not clued up enough to not know when they are selling fakes?

I think not.

eBay dispute is open, this may get sticky but then again the validation code is wrong so there's no way the seller can get around that.

The fake is so thorough that a lay person would find it hard to notice it is fake, "But it says Nitecore on the plug/power cable etc"

You have to really nitpick and even then if I hadn't had this forum and google to help I doubt I'd be able to make a conclusive decision.

I had to go as far as opening it up to see "NITE COKE" before I was totally sure.

Helpful.

Did you try identifying the white powder?

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.

Can you give us the link for this info?

LOL fake charger with PCB being half cocaine

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:

Real vs Fake Nitecore Digicharger D4 - YouTube

Fake Nitecore I2:

The comparison video’s helpful. Lots of fakes documented on videos.