SkyRC NC2200 thoughts?

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I mainly charge Ni-MH AA and AAA and started looking for a new analyzing charger. It would be nice to have support for Lithium-Ion and AAAA size Ni-MH, but they are not required.

I am considering the Vapcell S4 Plus, and the SkyRC NC2200. I was gravitating toward the NC2200 based on SkyRC’s reputation around the MC3000. However, I started to see some videos (not in English, which makes it tough for me to fully understand) that show Ni-MH batteries going up to 1.65V during charge:

Is this an issue? Anyone have any thoughts on this charger? Or should I be getting the Vapcell S4 Plus instead?

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The Vapcell S4 Plus will do it all, why bother with the other one?

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I’m wary because of my experience with the XTAR VC4SL which also was supposed to do it all, but was actually pretty terrible with NiMH. (Sometimes detected them as Li-ion, 50% of the time terminated charging after only 25% to 50% full).

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The Vapcell is a very good charger IMHO, only with very critical or old cells it have problems, but these cells also have problems in other chargers.

Maybe the Opus BT-C3100 is also an option but the cooling fan is a bit noisy.

I have a bunch of chargers and the VC4SL is the worst for NiMH I have. Only my Accupower IQ338XL annoys me also because of the reliability, but before the bays begun to fail it was an usable charger.

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choose vapcell S4+ please :laughing:

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After seeing some Youtube-Reviews of the NC2200 I would stay away from it. If the measure is correct it will blow NiMH to 1,7V

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OK I’m convinced that the Vapcell S4 plus is a good choice. I looked at the Aliexpress store, but the shipping to Canada is almost $40 (same as the charger itself!).

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Maybe you can ask at wurkkos.com if they ship to good condition to Canada

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I have the NC2200 since some months

+ Good Display

  • Good selection of charging/discharging currents in 100mA-steps
  • Good processing
  • Skyrc-typical: All parameters/status change after some seconds
  • Status-LEDs for working/finished
  • Many features: Charge, Turbo-Charge, Discharge, Refresh, Analyze, Break-In

o Termination works better than with the NC1500

- Cells getting IMHO to hot for a Non-super-compact-charger (suspect because the termination is not so bad like NC1500)

- IR measurement seems to be dubious

- Dubious voltage measurements, especially after insert a cell

- NiMH-only for this price

  • Discharge-function is not made to test the stability of the cell because the current gets decreased at weaker cells.
    With some cells it goes down to ~20mA. This means a AAA with 800mAh capacity and a discharge current of 500mA could take
    2h and 45m till it´s discharged

Overall it´s not that bad but the Vapcell S4+ works overall better, can also charge LiIon and is cheaper (at least in my area)

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IMHO to expensive for a pure NiMH-charger with those issues