New two bay NiMh, LiIon, LiFePo LCD charger from Soshine: SC-L2

Official specs and picture from their site:


Li-ion 3.7V 26650 18650 16340
LiIFePO4 3.2V 26650 18650 16340
NiMH 1.2V D C AA AAA

http://www.soshine.com.cn/a586.aspx

Looks interesting, now the waiting begins, its listed as “coming soon” product :D!

Google gives only one result from german forum with the same amount info, Taobao has no information either, sent an e-mail to Soshine, lets see what they answer regarding more tech specs, release date, pricing and more pictures.

FT has single bay version.

http://www.fasttech.com/products/1/10002741/1203300-soshine-sc-s7-1-lcd-single-ni-mhlithium-battery-sm

wow wow wow! Interesting! Let´s see how much time we will need to see it on the “normal” retailers…

Thats old news already :stuck_out_tongue:

Besides, it doesnt support LiFePo and comes in white, black looks better and not as cheap and its double the fun with two bays :D!

I also requested it at Fasttech, lets see whats their answer, they got SC-S7 within a week after I requested it, perhaps someone before me already had, either way, I was about to buy SC-S7, now Im gonna wait and see if and when SC-L2 comes to market :D!

I was eying the SC-S7 when it first came out, but didn’t bite. This new SC-L2 definitely has me nibbling. I think I’ll wait for HKJ to to an analysis though.

Looks interesting because of the LiFePo functionality.

I don’t care as much about NiMH since I’d rather use a smart charger with discharge.

Hopefully price is similar to the intellicharger

Heres the answer from Soshine:

I wonder what kind of festival are they talking about?
Chinese New Year? But it starts in february, so they dont plan to make it available for sale for couple of months?!

I wonder what the deal is with this charger. They’ve had it posted on their site for months but you can’t find it available at retail.

Maybe they’ve been testing all this time and are just now ready for production but don’t want any problems due to Chinese New Year. Still, how much downtime is generated from this holiday? Now it affects the weeks surrounding it?

This is interesting! Looking for a charger that will do multiple different batteries. Is there any other chargers that do the nimh, lifepo4, and lithiums?

Budget priced as always…. :santa:

Ultrafire WF-188 will charge 3.2/3.7v LiFePO4 and Li-Ion but not NiMH and there is no LCD that displays voltage, capacity, etc. Same goes for Trustfire TR006 I think.

I’m interested in the LCD readout because this would be for my dad and he doesn’t care to always check cells with a voltmeter. Heck, it would be handy for me as well because I’m not always interested in doing that either :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t care about NiMH since I’d rather use a smart charger with discharge function.

Soshine SC-F7 will do LiFePO4 and NiMH but no Li-Ion and still no LCD readout. It can be had for around $15

There are other LiFePO4/Li-Ion chargers under $20 but they all seem to share the same basic features

Heres another reply from Soshine regarding price:

14.50 euro’s?

It’s hard to believe it would be 14.50 USD since you can’t even get their older, single bay version that low.

I’m only interested because of the LCD readout, otherwise I’d simply go with the other, more inexpensive options. I don’t need NiMH charging. Hopefully they come out with this soon :slight_smile:

I think it is 14,50 euro (or dollar) + more than 10 dollar in shipping costs using HK/China post

So, is this charger in production/for sale already? Anyone knows?

Funny you asked, I sent them email this week and they said that theres other model with the same features released:

We have another new product SC-H2 which function is the same as SC-L2 have been released, please see the below picture,the unit price is US$13.8,include a charger and a AC adapter (US/EUR PLUG)as well as color box package . MOQ 300PCS ,EX-Works It is hot selling now.How many will you need?we could prepare for you.

guyz stop buying cheap ****!

Looks like they might still not have learned floating charge isnt so good for lithium cells…