That is wrong. If you measure the battery voltage even 1 second after the charge is terminated, it is not the charge termination voltage you are measuring.
At lower charge current you will fill more current into the battery and the voltage drop after charge termination will be less. I.e. you will measure higher voltage when charging with lower current and you first measure when the charing is stopped. This is only valid for the same battery, the voltage drop will vary between different batteries.
The only sample I have is at 4.20V and still charging (but not increasing voltage so far).
Here is a teaser, I’ll post a separate article with more pics of my build.
The 0.01V difference visible on the voltmeter is lost in the very thin leads to the cell holder. I’ll upgrade those wires soon, this is a test charge, initial, prototype build.
At the moment blue diode lit up voltage dropped to 4.23V -> 4.22V … etc. That means there is no trickle charge, or it trickle charges with different voltage (which would be even stranger).
Now, this was a budget, low quality cell. After two hours of resting it dropped to 4.17V. I’ve disconnected both the cell and the USB cable and measured every once in a while.
30 seconds after termination
left: unplugged USB cable 1 minute after termination; right: 20 minutes after termination
Cell was removed from the holder during resting as to not have it drained by the voltmeter.
I’ll be testing this charger more in the next few days and will post more results.
as you can see, the charger has a voltmeter. for our purposes it can charge 18650, RCR123, and CR2. 10440 and 14500 are not supported.
it's a new German company. i only trust electronics made in Taiwan Japan Corea. China good too. Germany more good for wurst, beer, bread, cake and cars. haha