Around here I bet it is.
In my surrounding however I can’t count the times people wanted a bright flashlight but once they found out it required a specialized charger and the added cost of quality items decided their 2€ flashlight was bright enough for their needs.
I got a couple of these and according to a couple of simples tests I could perform it’s safe but was wondering how the guru would classify it.
But I can see it’s not worth your time for the audience that comes here, I assume most of us have decent chargers to work with, so no problem.
This is outside your specified range of chargers for now, but noting it in case it’s of interest later:
— might be interesting because of the claims and it’s cheap:
— $22.50, free shipping (at least in us, dunno otherwise)
— Claims to charge Li-ion as well as NiCd/NiMH — “triple” charger
— definitely interesting to any ham radio owners, who end up looking for replacement battery packs (e.g. 7.2v NiMH)
It is a pretty new model if I am not wrong. I found it while searching for keeppower battery at China sites. It is kind of low profile charger... Any way, I am looking forward for your Pro review!
First and foremost: Many thanks for all your awesome reviews!
Second: How about a test of the Panasonic BQ-CC18? Or is that one older than the -CC17 and -CC16?
(Available at Amazon for under € 10.- Did not know which of the European ones you prefer so I did not get a link.)
These are currently cheap at US Radio Shack stores.
It’s a 2-cell li-ion charger *bunded with 2 cells) (slider to take batteries up to 26650, green light for “no battery or charged” and red light for “anything else”)
One surprise — it was able to reset protection on a (same DEWorld brand) 26650 cell — which I”d already tried in a Liitokala 260 (just reported “Null’) and in an Xtar WP2H (got blinking red) and an Xtar VC4 (gauge stayed on zero for close to an hour).
The DEWorld gave a red “charging” indicator and after about half an hour I moved the cell back to the VC4, which now shows 3.0v and charging happily.
So — I would guess the DEWorld just brutally slapped the cell around til it gave up and reset, and I have my doubts it’s very smart, but that was useful.
(I can take pictures of the circuit board inside it if that might help recognition)
They also sell (direct from that site) various other things including this car charger:
Here's a picture of the board in the "deworld" charger from Radio Shack (mentioned above as a suggestion).
I haven't figured out some new trick about making flickr pictures appear, it used to work straightforwardly; educate me by PM, anyone
Curious if this is enough to identify any useful information about this. It seems to terminate (or trickle?) -- at 4.21v (light changes from red to green).