Okay, after receiving it a couple of days ago, today I did some more testing.
Just now I discharged 4 18650’s at 1A
The discharge capacity shows higher than the rated capacity, this could be possible and I will confirm this with a discharge on my accucel-6 later.
But for some reason, one of the batteries, in slot 2, suddenly shows as if it was never discharged. Time is 0, capacity is 0.
Really strange, and I don’t know why. When I checked 20 or 30 minutes ago it was just discharging normally like the rest with a similar discharge capacity as the rest
I’m now doing a 700mAh charge (due to the charger only being 3A, I hope this will give better results than 1A since it won’t be able to deliver 4x1A)
Let’s see how it goes.
Well, the capacity it put in the batteries while charging is less than the number it showed when discharging.
Maybe the discharge function suffers from the same issue as charging with more than what the power supply can deliver?
Cells were cycled fully three times prior to collecting data and remained mostly unmolested in their respective slots. After each charge/discharge cycle, the P/S were exchanged then cycle repeated.
Hmm, doesn’t really seem that much of a difference between discharge with different psu’s
I discharged the first cell on my accucel with 1A
it got 2714 on the opus and 2544 on the accucel. Accucel was set to discharge to 2.8V. But in past tests I noticed the accucel shows a lower voltage so right now I’m doing a second discharge on another cell discharging it to 2.7V
I’m also doing another discharge on the opus with 2 cells 1A right now. Let’s see if that makes a difference.
Well, they both started at the same time.
After 2.5 hours the accucel is done with a result of 2541mAh. These are 2600mAh rated batteries.
The opus is still discharging and measured a battery voltage of 3.4V at the same time the accucel announced it’s stop.
Both did a 1A load.
Either the accucel really measures a way to low voltage, or the opus measures a way to high voltage or just does not discharges with a real 1A load but does use this for calculations. And although my accucel does measure a bit lower, it’s only 0.1V difference with my multimeter, not a 0.7V difference as it is with the opus at the same load.
Seeing that the capacity I got with charging was around 26something and the accucel is as I’m typing this at 2700, I am almost sure my opus does not discharge correctly with 1A, even with only 2 batteries inserted.
I’ll see if I can do a 0.5A discharge tomorrow to see if the results come closer to reality.
Will also try to test if I can test other batteries. But it might not be until after the weekend.
And seeing that most problems with wrong capacity I’ve read about where with showing a higher charged capacity and a normal discharged capacity, I’m not that happy :~
I could live with a wrong charge capacity, but the discharge values should be correct
edit: the opus just stopped discharging when I finished typing this.
2 hour 42 minutes 2700mAh
2 hour 45 minutes 2744mAh
Just like in almost all products in the market, a version change for improvements is always a possibility. This is a very much more complex product as compared to just a straight-up charger, let’s just hope it’s gonna be sooner or perhaps later.
I would really appreciate an answer to my question. I was reluctant to order this because of the number of reported problems in V2. Those reports continue to grow.
Your question has been answered. The item being offered is not v3. v3 does not exist (maybe it will one day, maybe it never will), there is only v1 and v2 in existence. On offer is v2. I would think that if there is a delay, its due to the demand. One seller, not the maker, has sold nearly 500 units. One would assume they dont keep an endless supply of them.
Regarding the problems with this , what it boils down to is that this is basically a toy. A pretty cool toy. But probably not made that well. I have two 16340s that won’t do anything in opus. The fan is not sturdy and you can press it and move it. Mine looks like it is covered with tape. It is showing plus 800 capacity for my 14500s. So I think they’re Sanyo under there. My TF flame 14500 showed about 800 and I thought it was gonna be fake. I bought another opus and I really don’t need it.
I guess you are right.
Maybe I was expecting more than I should.
My accucel isn’t top of the line either so those results might also be off. I was comparing those 2 results against each other.
So far the opus is consistent with it’s discharge readings, so it can be used to determine degradation of cells and comparing cells to each other as long as they are all tested in the opus. I do think my accucels readings are more accurate so for more important tests I will probably use that for datapoints.
I will still do a 0.5A test to see what that does with the capacity, and will also discharge some eneloops on the opus and my maha c9000 to see how those results compare.