{"id":8,"date":"2011-06-06T05:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T05:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T22:28:29","slug":"safe-18650-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"“safe” 18650 chargers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryobi has a new-ish line of Tek4 single-cell tools<\/a>. \u00a0They sell a single battery 4hr charger that costs $13, or a two-battery 36min charger that costs <$30 I think.<\/p>\n

Obviously the cradles do not fit 18650’s, so they’d need cradles harvested from DX chargers or whatever.<\/p>\n

Also the time will be higher to charge high-capacity 18650’s if they are intended to charge 1000-1500mAh safe chemistries.<\/p>\n

They may not be appropriate at all for standard Li-Ion 18650’s if they are actually intended for A123 “nano” 18650’s, which have a lower voltage range overall.<\/p>\n

I may pick up one cell (they are sold individually) and open it to see what it is. \u00a0People on RCG \/ CPF do not seem to know (or care?) what’s in the cells. \u00a0$13\/ea isn’t a bad price for individual safe chemistry 18650’s.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I’ll probably do that. \u00a0Maybe I can do it gently, in case I want to return the cell to the store!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryobi has a new-ish line of Tek4 single-cell tools. \u00a0They sell a single battery 4hr charger that costs $13, or a two-battery 36min charger that costs <$30 I think. Obviously the cradles do not fit 18650’s, so they’d need cradles … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}