Just got a la crosse bc1000. Thoughts.

I just discovered this forum last night and wish I had sooner. I ordered a bc1000 the other day cause I was afraid my sunlabz 16 bay was degrading my batteries as they seemed to not last as long per charge.

Did I make a good choice? Should I have bought a different charger?

johnc847 said:

I just discovered this forum last night and wish I had sooner. I ordered a bc1000 the other day cause I was afraid my sunlabz 16 bay was degrading my batteries as they seemed to not last as long per charge.

Did I make a good choice? Should I have bought a different charger?

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Honestly, you should have bought the Maha C9000 and I've had a well working BC-700 for four years.

The Maha just runs cooler than the smaller, more cramped LaCrosse chargers and it's a bit more flexible, with its analyzing functions.

Another option would be the multi-chemistry (NiMH/li-ion) Opus BT-3100/3400 v. 2.2. Both it and the Maha are about $50 shipped.

The Opus analyzes like Maha and LaCrosse chargers, but does it for lithium-ion chemistries.

Chris

On the la crosse bc1000. I'm doing a discharge/refresh. Any reason why I could see mAh yesterday when going through the displays but today I don't? Attached are pics.

Yesterday mAh displayed:



Today pics of all modes:

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Ah



H



mA

You are displaying mAh and Ah. They just shorten the mAh value to Ah when the counter hits four digits.

Bay #1 reads 2.53Ah, or 2530mAh.

Chris

ChrisGarrett said:

You are displaying mAh and Ah. They just shorten the mAh value to Ah when the counter hits four digits.

Bay #1 reads 2.53Ah, or 2530mAh.

Chris

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Ok thank you. Do you think this is a good first smart charger?

The BC1000 is great for NiMH batteries. I prefer the Maha C9000 charger, especially for LSD cells. The BC1000 won't really tell you if the cells are degrading other than if the cells are performing under 80% of their rated capacity.

johnc847 said:

Ok thank you. Do you think this is a good first smart charger?

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It's a good smart charger and my only knock is that my BC-700 heats up and suspends charging for 15 minutes or so, before resuming. It is designed to suspend charging when the temperature hits X (140*F?,) so the designers know this 'will' happen. And that's at a max rate of 700mA, so I can't imagine charging up at what 1800mA? Or even at 1A on your BC-1000 and the charger not suspending charge, since they're about the same size and use a similar case design.

If you can live with that, or if your charger charges without getting hot, then you're good to go.

I've told people for 4 years that I should have just bought 2 Maha C-9000s, but that's just me. My BC-700 is now at my GF's place and charges up the batteries for my SWM D40A, which gets used out on her balcony at night, so I haven't thrown my LaCrosse into the rubbish bin, by any means.

Chris

Is the skyrc mc3000 better than the la crosse bc1000? If so I may get that if it will do everything the bc1000 does cause I like that it will charge 18650 batteries.

Or should I get the c9000 for my aa and aaa and the mc3000 for others?