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).
I have posted some basic info and teardown of the ML202 here:
About the ML-102 V9.0 I can’t detect any significant difference with my V8.0 other than a sightly more stable USB output, charge current and termination seem to be the same.
It’d be nice if you could make a graph for the ego output. I have a sneaking suspicion most ego USB-powered chargers people use are terrible (IC in pic is an LM324) and the Nitecore could be a reliable alternative that I can recommend.
Hi HKJ. Do you have experience with this charger? The physical quality is good, but I’d like to know if it would be safe for unprotected high drain cells… if so, it would be a great ‘gift’ charger.
Ok. thanks!So they are not software related….
My NITECORE i4 exploded last evening, so I’m looking for a better replacement and the usual suspects are always the same Lii-500 and C3100, I like haveing 2A but not the PWM, but also having a decent impedance meter is nice, without to have to use my hobby charger
nevermind, i will flip the coin and decide if the (pwm) OPUS is worth the price 50% more of the (linear) Lii-500