Hello to you all!
I’ve a problem with charger in subject; during chargement with Vapcell K64 it see battery like nimh and stop charge at 1,53V. What can be? There is a system to change manually from nimh to liion? Thanks for kind reply.
Do you have a multimeter or some other type of volt meter that you can check the cell with? Or a known good cell to see what the charger says about it? I have several Vapcell that have been very good but it appears some models have had quality problems recently: last page of thread, some K64 issues https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/53910?page=18
Test cell voltage with Multimeter. ‘If’ it’s 1.5v the charger likely doesn’t recognise it to be a li-ion cell, I think they use voltage to varify cell type. The K64 is know to have self discharge issues, if purchased from AliExpress you should get a refund.
The charger also has a repair function, maybe that can help? The charger indeed gets the battery type by the voltage the inserted battery has:
- Below 0.4V the charger reports error.
- Up to 1.8V the charger assumes NiMH
- Between 1.8V and 2.2V the charger will not detect a battery.
- Above 2.2V the charger assumes LiIon
- Below 3.0V the charger will use 200mA charge current for LiIon
- Source: Review of Charger Vapcell S4+ fast charger
The cell probably was very low and the charger thought it was NiMh so stopped charging at 1.5V.