Only if I modded my SF L2m to accept a 18500, then I guess I could, but still, I have ML102 single 18650 charger. I could happily accept this one if it were a bit longer to accept 18650s too.
Great Review. Thank for the nice work.
I am currently using it. Wondering why I bought it for in the first place too. Without reading you review first.
How can the LiIon restart the charge, if there is a trickle charge of 150uA for maintaining the 4.20V? With this trickle charge, the voltage will stay 4.20V constant and never drop below 3.90V?
So Eneloops get a 10mA trickle charge after the ~1.5V termination? :)
I do not expect it will ever happen, but this not prevent me from checking it.
Generally chargers does not need a restart function, even without any leak current from the charger, the battery will last for years, before it drops below 3.9 volt.
Cottenspickers chargers with voltmeter is a different case.
Trickle charger must be under 0.1C, i.e. for a 2000mAh battery it must be below 200mA. The 0.1C is the standard charge current used for a 16 hour charge when testing capacity. 0.1C can also be used to balance battery packs with NiMH in series.
For trickle charging I would expect a range from 1mA to 50mA would be usable, the 50mA is enough to compensate for a AA that self discharges in two days or a D that self discharges in 8 days.
For chargers with a weak termination algorithm, a extra charge of one or two hours at 0.1C can be used to compensate for that.
Probably a dumb question, but would connecting the provided USB cable from the Xp1 to a 5V—1A output block (i.e. one used for iPhone charging) cause any issues? The specs say it needs 5v — .5A input.
I know this is a long shot as the most recent post on this thread is more than 7 years old, but here it goes: anyone know how to check the authenticity of this charger? I recently bought one from off ebay, and it has that same label and website attached to the charger to check if it’s real. However, the website is inaccessible. I tried the XTAR CS phone number, but that also doesn’t work. Couldn’t find anywhere on the XTAR website (that is actually working these days) to check for authenticity. My gut tells me mine’s fake tho……but I want to be sure before taking further action.