I'm new to this Lithium Ion battery and flashlight stuff, so I don't know if this is a dumb question or not...
I bought some Sanyo 3500 ma / 10A batteries recently and an Xstar VC2 Plus charger, and also took apart an old Lenovo 6-cell battey pack that hasn't seen any use for 2 or 3 years and was thought to be dead or have low capacity. I put a couple of the new Sanyo's in the VC2+ and they were showing initial charge of 10% and are taking several hours (6?) to charge. The Lenovo batteries showed an intial charge of zero and seem to be charging faster (but getting warm, borderline hot at the 95% mark). I both cases, the VC2+ is using only 0.5 A charging mode. I'm using a power supply spec'd at over 3 amps.
I was expecting the VC2+ to be using the 1A mode on these batteries, at least initially - was this a wrong expectation? If so, under what conditions would it use the 1A charging mode?
I bought some Sanyo 3500 ma / 10A batteries recently and an Xstar VC2 Plus charger, and also took apart an old Lenovo 6-cell battey pack that hasn't seen any use for 2 or 3 years and was thought to be dead or have low capacity. I put a couple of the new Sanyo's in the VC2+ and they were showing initial charge of 10% and are taking several hours (6?) to charge. The Lenovo batteries showed an intial charge of zero and seem to be charging faster (but getting warm, borderline hot at the 95% mark). I both cases, the VC2+ is using only 0.5 A charging mode. I'm using a power supply spec'd at over 3 amps.
I was expecting the VC2+ to be using the 1A mode on these batteries, at least initially - was this a wrong expectation? If so, under what conditions would it use the 1A charging mode?
