that’s nice to know, I bought one thanks to your review to use it to charge NiHM cells with a 4 18650 box that gets power from a solar panel. Would be nice if I could hook it directly to my solar panel though, I’ll post back results when it arrives.
Do you have any way to test that? Because if it charges when conecting to a 500mA USB source, but at a lower rate than 1000mA, I will buy it on Sunday or Monday….
I will not recommend using any NiMH charger directly from a solar panel, this has to do with the charge termination.
With this charger, you might also get problems with the microprocessor.
I did a partial charge with 4.5 volt on the USB input (Most usb supplies will reduce the voltage when overloaded, not turn off).
The input current was reduced to 700mA, but the "smart" part of the charger did have some problems, it reported my battery as "poor" and there was a slight flashing in the display.
hello HKJ, i saw that you make a lot of good reviews, and i´m new here, i don´t know much about the graphics that you showed here, but how about this charger, it´s dangerous to charge 18650 cells? can explode the batteries? cause this charge can handle all kind of batteries and has a good price, has many functions… i don´t have any charge at the moment, i bought one like this http://dx.com/p/universal-ac-charger-for-aa-aaa-6f22-18650-battery-ac-100-240v-eu-plug-47499, but my light is always showing green when i try to charge the batteries. have you tried that?
this one from soshine has a good price… and functions… i will have problems with it?
many thanks, sorry for my ignorance about batteries and chargers…
Generally even the worst LiIon chargers does not make batteries explode, but they might reduce the lifetime of the batteries and they might also be dangerous to touch.
If you need a cheap charger I would suggest the ML-102, it is usb powered.
so this soshine charger sc-s7 is not good to use AA , AA and 18650 batteries? cause i need to charge these 3 batteries
this sc-s7 if i get the batteries out after charged i will not have problems?
thanks