Charging eGo batteries with a more powerful wall adapter

[mwjones]

Good morning

Just thought I'd ask here, as my internet searching has come up with a whole lot of conflicting information.

I have a couple of ego-c 1100mAh batteries, and I'm waiting for a couple of 1300mAh ones to come in the mail. I have a couple of usb charging cords, but i only have one 420mah wall charger. Can i plug them into say, a 2 amp tablet charger? Will it explode or anything strange like that?

Thanks

 

[KenD]

Stick to the appropriate charger.

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[DavidOck]

As long as you use the 420 - 450 mA charger for the egos, the wall wart - as long as it's of a higher rating than that! - can be any one that you have. I sometimes use my tablet wart, sometimes a 4 port wall wart that's 2 amp.

The charger itself will only deliver it's max to the battery. The wart just provides power to the charger. So, yes, you can use your tablet wart to do that.

You do want to pick up another ego charger though, as they can fail, and then you're in trouble! And you can then, with a multi-port wart, charge two at a time

 

[djsvapour]

NOT recommended

In theory, if the charger and the wall adapter do their job, it'll work. If the charger is messed up, you could potentially have a fire or explosion even.

Don't take the risk.

 

[skoony]

it is perfectly safe to plug your usb charger into any wall mounted usb power converter as long as the wall converter meets or exceeds the power requirements of the device being plugged into it. you can safely use 4, 420 ma chargers into a 2 amp converter with power to spare.i have a 500 ma wall converter that i can only run 1, 420 ma charger on. i have 2, 2 amp converters i can theoretically run 4 chargers on each of them. a wall converter is just mimicking the usb port of a computer. the voltage output is the same, 5 volts. your computers power supply was designed to be able to supply 500 ma power at 5 volts to each usb port on the computer. this spec may have been upgraded. that is why chargers you see run at 420 to 480 ma,the same specs used for any other device designed to be used with a usb port. if your computer has 4 usb ports it defacto has a minimum 2 amp power supply to meet any needs when using all 4 ports.
regards
mike

 

[Monotremata]

Itll work fine, but it wont charge them any faster. Regardless of what the wall wart is putting out, the usb charger the batteries hooked to is only going to draw what its rated to draw just like was said above.

Same way guitar players can power all their pedals off a singled daisy chained 9v power supply.. I have a 9v 1Spot power supply that puts out 1800mah altogether.. NONE of my pedals draw anywhere near that amperage (in fact the average draw is only like 10-20ma for each one) and I have 10 of them chained to the power supply all running just fine.. They wouldve melted down from 1800mah if not, but the pedals are just like the USB charger, they only draw what they need to and all that extra voltage just does nothing..

 

[dbain]

Without going into a long explanation of how electricity works, and as DavidOck said, YES it will work, as long as whatever adapter you're plugging the charger into is able to supply at least 500mA.

This is what I use: Anker 40W 5-Port Charger

I've had two batteries, two smart phones, and a tablet charging off of this at the same time, and everything worked perfectly. The adapter itself never even got warm! Anker make great products.