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balance charging 18650's / 26650's

here is a 2s balance charge lead set up for 18650's i had to cut the springs in the battery boxes as they are for none protected cells and I'm using protected cells so to get them to fit i had to remove the spring and reverse the polarity of the battery boxes (run the batteries the other way round) i have also made some singular ones for protected cells and use red heat shrink to cover the black wires and black heat shrink to cover the red wires so there is no confusion witch way the battery goe…

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4 x 18650 balance charge cradle for Hobby class chargers

With all the bright 4 battery lights I have been getting lately I have found charging all my 18650’s to be a little onerous. So I ordered a couple of these battery holders from DX here and built myself a 4 cell battery holder with a balancing lead to connect to my hobby class chargers. This will safley charge and balance 4 batteries in a little over the same time it normally takes to charge one battery. I got the balance circut here So far its working great just remember polarity when putting i…

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Hobby Chargers

So, lets start of with some discussion around hobby chargers. Why aren't more of us using hobby chargers to charge our flashlight batteries? Sure, they are more expensive but in return they offer so much more versatility that they almost pay for them self. I'm using my Turnigy Accucel 6 for all my flashlight batteries, Li-ion 18650, 16340, 10440, NiMH AA and AAA and even the battery pack for my cordless drill. In all cases I can set the charge current from 100mA to 5000mA and the charger always…