liitokala 402 [fully charged]?

[leftfordead]

Thank u dusty . I’m going to sort a cheap digital meter. Also I’m going to pit the batterys back on charge until the charge light turns solid and then I can see what they terminate at. I’m just happy I was misreading the blinks

[leftfordead]

@Dusty

Your video appears to show a charge of 4v. Here is the what the manual says:

Battery Check
Battery Check mode displays the current voltage reading of the cells, blinked out continuously – 1 click will terminate the voltage reading. For example, a 3.7V reading will results in 3 blinks, short pause, 7 blinks, long pause, then repeats again. This pattern will continue forever until a click terminates it. It can also be used as low power beacon and should last many hours. The voltage reading ranges from 2.8V to 4.2V, but does not scale linearly. This is an approximate scale of percent discharge to voltage reading:
• 25%: 3.9V
• 50%: 3.7V
• 75%: 3.5V
• 90%: 3.25V
So typically, Li-Ion cells will drop more rapidly as they get closer to the end, so from 3.4V on down, there isn’t much capacity left.

As far as your Liitokala Charger. They are very popular around here, with a lot of discussion. Though some have variance in termination voltage, I don’t think I’ve read of any that were above the +/- tolerance of the battery manufacturers. No way to know for sure without checking the batteries with a multimeter. Even a cheap $5 department store, digital multimeter, should be accurate enough to provide battery voltage.
When to recharge is your decision. 3v would be good, but as you can see above, 3.2v is approximately 90% discharged.

Ok the charger did terminate and now my q8 is reading 4.1v

[Dusty]

@leftfordead

@Dusty

Your video appears to show a charge of 4v. Here is the what the manual says:

Battery Check
Battery Check mode displays the current voltage reading of the cells, blinked out continuously – 1 click will terminate the voltage reading. For example, a 3.7V reading will results in 3 blinks, short pause, 7 blinks, long pause, then repeats again. This pattern will continue forever until a click terminates it. It can also be used as low power beacon and should last many hours. The voltage reading ranges from 2.8V to 4.2V, but does not scale linearly. This is an approximate scale of percent discharge to voltage reading:
• 25%: 3.9V
• 50%: 3.7V
• 75%: 3.5V
• 90%: 3.25V
So typically, Li-Ion cells will drop more rapidly as they get closer to the end, so from 3.4V on down, there isn’t much capacity left.

As far as your Liitokala Charger. They are very popular around here, with a lot of discussion. Though some have variance in termination voltage, I don’t think I’ve read of any that were above the +/- tolerance of the battery manufacturers. No way to know for sure without checking the batteries with a multimeter. Even a cheap $5 department store, digital multimeter, should be accurate enough to provide battery voltage.
When to recharge is your decision. 3v would be good, but as you can see above, 3.2v is approximately 90% discharged.

Ok the charger did terminate and now my q8 is reading 4.1v

[leftfordead]

@Dusty

@leftfordead

@Dusty

Your video appears to show a charge of 4v. Here is the what the manual says:

Battery Check
Battery Check mode displays the current voltage reading of the cells, blinked out continuously – 1 click will terminate the voltage reading. For example, a 3.7V reading will results in 3 blinks, short pause, 7 blinks, long pause, then repeats again. This pattern will continue forever until a click terminates it. It can also be used as low power beacon and should last many hours. The voltage reading ranges from 2.8V to 4.2V, but does not scale linearly. This is an approximate scale of percent discharge to voltage reading:
• 25%: 3.9V
• 50%: 3.7V
• 75%: 3.5V
• 90%: 3.25V
So typically, Li-Ion cells will drop more rapidly as they get closer to the end, so from 3.4V on down, there isn’t much capacity left.

As far as your Liitokala Charger. They are very popular around here, with a lot of discussion. Though some have variance in termination voltage, I don’t think I’ve read of any that were above the +/- tolerance of the battery manufacturers. No way to know for sure without checking the batteries with a multimeter. Even a cheap $5 department store, digital multimeter, should be accurate enough to provide battery voltage.
When to recharge is your decision. 3v would be good, but as you can see above, 3.2v is approximately 90% discharged.

Ok the charger did terminate and now my q8 is reading 4.1v

that’s a good safe reading and that means the liiko is doing it’s job