I believe the sale for the item I linked is no longer active or no longer visible. Maybe it was the wrong price, maybe it was for a limited time or for a limited amount of stock.
it’s gone for 2.80$, back to 7.99$…i am thinking about it, but i am still using eneloops only, lion seems like a lot of work and precautions…don’t overcharge, don’t overdischarge, check the voltage, put them at 3.7V for storage, what to use- protected or unprotected, avoid short circuit, avoid drops, it’s getting harder and harder to order them online, it looks like full time job taking care of lion batteries…
Liitokala’s own site links to “https://liitokala.aliexpress.com/” which is the “Liitokala Official Flagship Store” I’ve also seen one with Hong Kong in the URL.
I’ve read that the best way to ID, if not necessarily discern between different stores is to look at the store ID number, but it wouldn’t surprise me if sellers operate multiple stores. In buying other stuff from AE, I’ve long suspected that is the case, without even considering the amount of image/listing stealing that occurs.
It all seems kinda sketchy, but it comes with the territory I suppose. Cheap stuff is hard to resist sometimes, but the risk is there.
I just wonder why, even if for their own sanity, why the sellers don’t just create a single listing for each product, instead of multiple listings, some crammed with entirely disparate items, resulting in lots of duplicates and potential confusion for shoppers.
I had a couple of the S1s in my cart, but entirely forgot about the timing of the sale. I wouldn’t have minded getting a couple to play with at that price, but as a consumer, I no longer feel the need to play games to save a few bucks, and these kinds of tactics on the part of LK don’t encourage me to look to them again in the future. I’d rather deal with someone like Simon at Convoy, who is still saddled with the same deficiencies of AE’s site, but at least operates in an upstanding manner.
as far as i can tell, this morning while they’re still at sale for 2.80$ i spotted only 125 items for sale in stock…since all 125 pieces were sold, sale is ended…it’s typical for many ae sellers, only small batch is actually for sale…
Mine came today and I’m charging my first battery. So far it seems to work well. Right now the built in display reads 10mv lower than my Fluke 189. I’ll check the voltage when it terminates.
Not sure how helpful that would be since you’ll be monitoring incoming current at 5V instead of outgoing current to the cell at whatever voltage the cell is at a given point in the charging process. I guess one could calculate this out, based on some efficiency factor.