Amazon Basics AA rechargeable. Eneloop 2018 help picking

Shouldn’t matter which one of these chargers you use.
Any charge rate up to about 0.5C should be safe and not stress the cells at all.

Ok definitely soft or slow whatever for the Maha. Rapid charge finishes AAs crazy quick. Thanks. Should I do the whole break in thing first when I get them? Does it really matter. Break in with charger or just from normal use. Kinda same ish I’m thinking.

I would just start using them.

I usually run one test cycle on them—If you’re using them in pairs etc—you can kind of half match the sets—also if they don’t test out close Amazon will make it right

I’m going to mostly be using them in my 4 and 6 cell powered lights. So I’m going to have to buy 16. Maha powerex has a “condition” mode on it. Is that the same as test cycle?

Charge, discharge then charge again. Or on the Engineer it has that Nor test mode and shows all the mAh voltage and stuff. Maha just blinks. Bought Maha mainly for my C and D batteries

Huh? Apologies if I ruffled feathers. Not worth the contention.

I may have overreacted. Sorry Flyboy. Having a really rough week. I am using the AA to D adaptors I already have in them cheap Eveready flashlights. That way I will have more AA cells. My EBL cells are really old and don’t hold much charge anymore. I use rechargeables in everything. My TV remote don’t work with the EBL except a few of them.
So I guess I really didn’t need to include the party thing. I just don’t want the price of Eneloop if the Amazon are similar for less $.

My powerex charger has a refresh/analyze mode—you can set the charge discharge rates—with the rest periods in between cycles it takes forever— I usually charge up the cells on other chargers to speed it up a bit—- the opus and litokala are lots faster

Do you have the MH-C808M? I can’t adjust anything on mine other than doing a soft charge or condition mode.

I have the Engineer Lii-500. Is that the one you use?

Powerex MH—C9000 and the Lii 500 —- do the noir test on the 500 —you can set the charge rate —it has preset discharge rates 500ma and below uses a 250ma discharge —- 700ma and above uses a 500ma discharge —I use the higher ma on AA cells

Do you think 1000mah is Overkill on AAs? I got my EBL C doing noir test now just out of curiosity 1000

I use to do 700 ma but I read some post I think from HJK that said if too low a charge current is used it affects the cut off —I don’t know for sure—in most all my cells Ni-Mh Lithium etc —I usually stay some where around half the capacity for my charge rate

So if I’m understanding this right, for a 5,000 mAh C I would use 250? If that’s even possible on the engineer li500

Alright so I officially confused myself lol.
So my 26650 Keeppower 5200 mAh on the Lii500 what would be half capacity?

You would use 2500 mA, but Lii500 only goes up to 1000.

Half of 5200 is 2600.

Yes I know what half is Pete. But my charger only has 300 500 700 and 1000.
I know. This is one stupid guy.

Any cell that’s 2,000 mAh or larger, just use 1000 mA charge rate on the Lii-500.

How about the nor test thing? Same 1000

Yes, same thing.