18350 and charging

[Cid008]

Hi everyone, first, if I'm not on the good section, I'm sorry, I haven't found a section that would fit with this question. I also did a search on the forum but it seems nobody ask before.

I am waiting for a Orion which should arrive tomorrow or next monday. So I bought this from mlv:
4x IMR18350 NIPPLE TOP Chemically Safe Li-ion 3.7V 800mAh Rechargeable Battery
Xtar WP2 (from another store)

The wp2 come with the 2 spacers and I just saw that to put the 18350, I need to use 2 spacers. Now, I bought that charger because we are leaving for camping next week and I wanted a charger that would work on the car (I already had a Trustfire TR-003P4) and I don't want to charge 1 battery at the time. As anyone ever tried to stack batteries to charge? Could I charge the 4 batteries at the same time (2 batteries in the same channel)? If it's not recommend, I guess I could resale the charger and go to buy a 12v 110v converter for the trustfire

Thanks! And I really enjoy this forum, so much information!

 

[Rader2146]

Do NOT stack batteries in a charger. Best case the charger just fries. Worst case....boom.

You can buy spacers for about $.50 each. Just google "xtar spacers".

 

[Cid008]

Yeah I know about the spacers, but I won't get them before leaving (monday night)
I guess I'll buy one of those 12v 110v converter... Or, I just saw that my TR-003P4 have a 12v input. The xtar car adapter don't fit in it but I could go to see in those chinese store if they have one that fit...

 

[Pappy]

You could try using pennies as a spacer between negative end of the battery and the negative terminal on the charger. I don't know if that's safe or not, but I had it suggested to me once by a customer service tech who was trying to trouble shoot why a charger wasn't working. I assume he wouldn't suggest it if it was dangerous.

It would probably take a stack of 8 or 10 pennies to make an 18350 fit in that charger.

 

[Cid008]

You could try using pennies as a spacer between negative end of the battery and the negative terminal on the charger. I don't know if that's safe or not, but I had it suggested to me once by a customer service tech who was trying to trouble shoot why a charger wasn't working. I assume he wouldn't suggest it if it was dangerous.

It would probably take a stack of 8 or 10 pennies to make an 18350 fit in that charger.

I just tried and it work. I'll buy the spacers for when I'll be back but I guess this trick will do it for next week. Thanks!

 

[Caridwen]

Glad you found a solution!

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