So is this now ready for the mainstream? Is a latest version available for sale (where?) in which the contacts and sliders have been fixed, the buttons are reliable - what else?
Reply from Enova
" The S8000 will only be available for global shipping after the Chinese New Year, around mid-March. However, the S4000 Pro is ready to ship now. You can place your order on Enovapura, and it will be shipped from China. Best regards, The Enova Team"
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If you are in the USA I can point you to where you can get the S8000 or S4000 Pro right now, both are in-stock ready for immediate shipping
Thanks - but I am in Australia. What is your feeling about the sliders? I read your comment on actually sliding them (or not), but how about the contact they make with different batteries? Also, how do you find the buttons which drew some considerable comment at first.
I guess I was hoping that by now there might be a version with all these issues and others fixed. Kind of like how it took the MC3000 a couple of incarnations before it was truly ready for the mainstream.
sliders are hard but do make contact, hopefully in time by use they’ll get better
My problem with the sliders is that the negative vertical part (In know it IS part of the slider) is too short. Getting longer cells (21700) fully seated and also out of the charger is difficult. Just adding maybe 5mm to their length would go a long way towards fixing that problem. This would give purchase for a finger to release tension during insertion and removal of cells. I haven’t had any issues with good contact once the cells are in.
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You mean “150 mA”, right?
Makes sense, yes.
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Calling all Linux users of the Enova Gyrfalcon chargers to help test my port of the Upgrade Tool:
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SammysHP updated his conclusion after one year of use. Please check out SammysHP Blog › Enova Gyrfalcon S8000.
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Well, having gone to the German website and read the updated version in English, the S8000 all looks considerably improved now. Too bad about the only 2A max charging but I could live with that I guess.
BUT WHAT about the sliders: have they been fixed, both sliding and contacts - in the latest hardware versions - available where?
Enova said they improved the sliders in the final version, but unfortunately I’ve never seen them for comparison.
There were also a few other updates in my German review. Let’s see if I can incorporate them into the English version here.
The S8000 (with the new positive and negative contacts) is now available on akkuteile.de and enovapura.com.
Thanks for the info on where to purchase.
To those of you who have one of these (S8000), is there anything missing - compared with the MC3000 - that an ordinary user is likely to miss?
Well, it doesn’t have Bluetooth (yet?) and no integrated voltage/current plot. Slots could be a little longer and easier to access, but otherwise it’s the best charger I got so far.
Thanks - coming from you that is a great recommendation.
I assume it automatically recognises the type of cell (battery) inserted - including 1.5V liion.
It doesn’t, but it warns you if the voltage doesn’t match the selected type.
Thanks again.
I don’t think I want miss that automatic recognition capacity of the MC3000 just yet.
Maybe they can fix that with a future firmware update like many of the other fixes. If Enova comes up with the auto-recognition it will be time for a new charger for me for sure - since I like all the other features of the S8000 including charging 5V liion cells.
We’d love to hear from S8000 or S4000 Pro users — do you think automatic battery type recognition is really necessary? Is it something that truly needs to be “fixed,” or is the current method of manually selecting a profile actually more flexible and useful, especially for advanced users? After all, the types of batteries that can be automatically recognized are quite limited, and over-reliance on this feature could potentially introduce unnecessary risks.
As a side note: our upcoming models, the All88 and All88 Pro (launching next month), will include a new “Simple Mode” that can automatically recognize Ni-MH, Li-ion Std, and 1.5V Li-ion cells, and apply the appropriate charging process — making them easier to use for everyday needs.
Your feedback is always important to us, so feel free to share your thoughts anytime!
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Why not give us a choice? Auto-recognition in “Normal” mode and manual selection in “Professional” mode.
I for one would use both - depending on circumstances.
Having said that, I have never found the auto-recognition mode in the MC3000 likely to induce me to make errors since after auto-recognition I then just set the charge rate and let the MC3000 do its work.
I like the look of the S8000 and what it can do that the MC3000 can’t (cell size, 1.5V liion) - but I often want to just quick charge some cells and auto-recognition makes it so much easier.