CoffeeAchiever
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Yesterday I received my most recent package from LightHound (another Cheers! post is pending - thanks John!). In it were two protected 18650 2200mAh Li-ion rechargeable batteries - the wide body variety that many of us have been experimenting with.
These are my first 18XXX series batteries so my question my sound a bit naive to the more experienced hotwires on this forum. How long SHOULD it take to charge two of these batteries on a DSD smart charger?
Upon receiving the batteries yesterday afternoon, I popped them into the DSD smart charger that I keep on my desk and left them there until the end of my work day. The total charging time was approximately four hours. I removed the batteries from the charger before I left my office as I never let my Li-ion batteries charge unattended.
This morning when I arrived at my desk I put the two batteries back into the DSD charger. They have been in the charger for more than five hours today - over nine hours total charge time - and my DSD charger's light is still red. I took the batteries out of the charger for a couple of minutes and popped them back in to see if they may really be fully charged. This technique often works with both my protected RCR123a's and my unprotected LIR123a batteries, why I don't know.
I'm not familiar with 18XXX series Li-ions but they are going on ten hours of total charge time as I write this. Ten hours seems like an excessively long time to charge two 2200mAh batteries. My two protected 17670's are rated at 1600mAh each and a fully depleted pair takes approximately five hours to charge.
If you own and use 18XXX series batteries in your flashlights and change them using a DSD smart charger, how long does it take to charge your batteries?
These are my first 18XXX series batteries so my question my sound a bit naive to the more experienced hotwires on this forum. How long SHOULD it take to charge two of these batteries on a DSD smart charger?
Upon receiving the batteries yesterday afternoon, I popped them into the DSD smart charger that I keep on my desk and left them there until the end of my work day. The total charging time was approximately four hours. I removed the batteries from the charger before I left my office as I never let my Li-ion batteries charge unattended.
This morning when I arrived at my desk I put the two batteries back into the DSD charger. They have been in the charger for more than five hours today - over nine hours total charge time - and my DSD charger's light is still red. I took the batteries out of the charger for a couple of minutes and popped them back in to see if they may really be fully charged. This technique often works with both my protected RCR123a's and my unprotected LIR123a batteries, why I don't know.
I'm not familiar with 18XXX series Li-ions but they are going on ten hours of total charge time as I write this. Ten hours seems like an excessively long time to charge two 2200mAh batteries. My two protected 17670's are rated at 1600mAh each and a fully depleted pair takes approximately five hours to charge.
If you own and use 18XXX series batteries in your flashlights and change them using a DSD smart charger, how long does it take to charge your batteries?