For NiMH is might be fine, but I have not seen any description that says it is fine for LiIon.
With puls charging you will have to use a higher current, if you want the same average charge current, this does mean more heat is created.
There is also the question about high current pulses into small batteries, how does it affect them?
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I am no expert in the battery field, but wouldn't the BT-C3100 be a good lithium ion battery charger as well as a battery analyzer, especially if the random spikes you have observed from your previous testing have been ironed out in the version 2.0 firmware update?
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Before I see a document stating that high current charging pulses are ok for small LiIon batteries I will rate constant current chargers as better.
There is also the minor detail about the CC/CV, with a pulsing charger it is simulated, not a real CC/CV, usual the practical difference will be minor.
The above comments does not make this a bad charger, it is probably a good charger.
Ok thanks. And by small li-ion do you mean 10440, 16340, 14500, 18350? For those batteries, couldn't we just change the charge current to 200mah on this charger, or would that still be high current pulses going to the battery?
3 1/2 days since I placed my order and still not a peap from Gearbest or Dora (who I emailed directly a day and a half ago) on the status of my order. Paid for expedited shipping, still has not shipped. Suggestions, anyone?
Holidays May 1 to 3 in China. Before these days, Dora has indicated she will be ‘on-air’ May 4 (surprisingly it’s still a Sunday) . I’m sorry to hear your predicament. I notice the Chinese really take their holidays seriously. I haven’t heard a peep from her too.
Yep. I know they’re on holiday now, but they had 2 full business days (ordered it late April 28 EST) to get it out before the holiday. I guess I’m just used to US e-commerce companies that always ship the same day as ordered. If this had been Amazon or Newegg, they’d refund the shipping fee and upgrade it to overnight. Ironically, the batteries that I ordered from DealExtreme a few days earlier with their standard ‘molasses’ shipping are already here.
Even 1A didn’t work properly on v1 so I thought we would better wait for a new review of v2. I don’t want to check every battery after charging manually to check if it is fully loaded…
If they really fixed this I would also buy one but I am suspicious with all those Chinese promises…
I suggest you email dorawu13@gmail.com for that information with your shipping name and address
Mine was shipped April 29 but still shows ‘unable to track’ (though the tracking number is acknowledged) at this: http://www.17track.net/index_en.shtml
In my experience with Asian regular air mail services, it usually appears from 6 to 10 days from date of shipping for tracking to appear, unlike USPS and the much faster Fedex, UPS and DHL services.