You honestly have a problem with pushing the battery the other way around in?
You can send this “crappy” charger to me for free, if you don’t want it
The other “problem”… well, it surely would be nice to have all 4 capacities shown at the same time - but to be honest - how often do you use this feature? Once per cell per year?
You charge, discharge and recharge your cells every time?
Or do you mean the function that it shows you, how much mAh the charger pumped into the cell?
I test my cells and write the mAh and Month/Year on the cell - that’s it.
it took a 2nd look i really tried this many times and i can say with out a doubt the lii-500 discharges to 2.82v exactly every time and then goes into a charge cycle
so i will (should) not see 3400mAh with my Sanyo NCR18650BF displayed when its done charging as it only started at 2.82v and not the 2.50v that the 3400mAh rating is based on
Just how much went into each cell. Wouldn’t really need to do a full test unless I saw something unusual or they cells were getting old. It’s convenient to see all the cells at the same time, that’s all.
the reason i went through such a test is i sourced these Sanyo NCR18650BF from Ali Express
and then they CO$T me $4.30 each (in a 12pack) almost 1/2 the of BG i hope to see BG LOWER their prices as i really like them
i will be testing all of my cells new and used like this at least once so i know what to keep and what give away
well the 1st round of testing is in and for this test
i had 2x new Sanyo NCR18650BF and 1 Panasonic NCR18650B with 3 cycles
all started at 2.82v Sanyo #1…… 3217mAh 4.22v 3:34 1amp (SLOT #1) Sanyo #2…… 3220mAh 4.22v 6:50 500ma (SLOT #3) Panasonic #1 3275mAh 4.22v 5:06 700ma (SLOT #2)
May I make a suggestion that you change the name of your review to something like:
Mini review of the Liitokala Lii-500 18650 Analyzing Charger ?
I'm afraid that people are just skimming over it and thinking not to click on it because it is nothing that they recognize and haven't a clue as to what it is.
I have a Nitecore D4 right now and while it is a good charger, it tells me little about whether or not a cell may be Fake. - Lots of Fakes going around, ya know:-(
Just an Idea - Thanks again for posting your review!
well i think some of you on the side lines should wait for the main even here from HKJ it should be what everyone is waiting for in the meantime i will report my findings
i have seen it tossed around before and i can totally say that mR AKA IR (internal resistance) matters in terms of the time to charge clearly on my laptop pulls (good ones) the lower the mR the faster the charge even at the same rate
2nd week in and i have only nice thing to say about it at ~$24 compared to to others its a bargain (never tried the OPUS just a little rich for my taste) and the Nitecore i4 V2 is now way to slow with only 500mAh MAX per cell and with quality cells like we have today even laptop pulls i have no problem charging at 1amp (let in be known i use a laptop cooling pad on ALL my chargers imo the Lii-500 runs cooler at 1 amp then the Nitecore does at 500mAh need more cycles)
BTW can i upload pictures here or only links to some other image host
Nice info to know on the charger, I’ve been deciding on the opus and this LL500 for a minute now. $24 for it seems like a crazy good deal and I may have to jump on it before full reviews come out. Would you care to give out the link of the AliExpress vendor? Thanks.
it does have an mR function (admittedly) technically not an iR function but for me it does seem to give useful info.
if I prop it up (cable up in the air a bit) it does run cooler.
true it does not give info on multiple cells concurrently, all you have to do is push one button for the cell of intrest and all the info is there, (not a big deal in my book)
as an old pro i can tell you that if you are looking for the LOWE$T price you need to look for the Lii500 and not the Lii-500 you can save $0.21 Ali E. is funny like that
I was thinking about paying a little bit more and having the extra protection of eBay. - I don’t like the idea that Ali doesn’t take PayPal, and am hesitant to send my card number to them.
These guys don’t understand English, so no telling what is meant by the word “Seconds” in their header. - I asked them on eBay questions, but no answer from them yet. - It is the weekend, so no big deal.
In another of their ads for the 300 they claim to actually be the Factory:
“Is the charger factory, we need to email agent or wholesale customers can contact us: liitokala@126.com.”
Any thoughts on this, or where the Safest place to buy one might be, even though I might have to pay a bit more?