Chit Chattin away!

[pchela]

I don't think it's the charger but not sure actually. When I put one of the set on the charger it reads green, the other red, then when they are both green I put them in and it dies within 5 minutes. My 3 18650s are only giving me 3.4. Is that normal?

 

[markfm]

Fresh off the charger, a 3.7V battery will normally read about 4.2V, which quickly drops.

Any chance your charger is one of the ones that is switchable voltage, accidentally got nudged to 3V? (or failed to that state).

Voltage measured between the terminals of the charger, if it's for 3.7V batteries, should be somewhere in the 4.2 area, maybe just a few hundredths higher.

 

[pchela]

My charger does have a switch 3.6 or 4.2 but I've never been sure where to put it. I'll double check it now. Thanks!

 

[markfm]

3.6 would be the setting for charging a 3V battery, while 4.2 is for a 3.7V battery. 18650 is a 3.7V battery (at least the ones I've heard of).

 

[pchela]

Thank you. I will make sure it stays at 4.2 and see if that helps!

Wait - does that mean that the 18350's and 16340's should be set at 3.6?

 

[Enid]

Heather asked me to clean up the house before she left for work today.

I'm going to throw a bunch of stuff away. She authorized it, right?

((we are hopefully going to find a house to buy any day now. we are organizing. organizing means throwing stuff away, right?))

 

[markfm]

Batteries should be marked on the side, what voltage they are.

In the "16340" I've heard multiple mentions of the 3V rcr123a as well as the 3.7v 16340. (It's a common buzz pro question, people may have some 3v rcr123a around, wonder if they can use them instead of 3.7v 16340.) Check the battery for marking to determine which charger voltage to use.

18350s are almost certainly marked 3.7v, should be charged at 4.2. Again, just check the marking on the side of the battery -- if it says 3.7, then 4.2 is the right charger setting.

 

[keyzygirl]

Heather asked me to clean up the house before she left for work today.

I'm going to throw a bunch of stuff away. She authorized it, right?

((we are hopefully going to find a house to buy any day now. we are organizing. organizing means throwing stuff away, right?))

Just be careful you dont throw away someone elses stuff that they will notice and get mad.

 

[Enid]

I think that they'd have to notice that it's missing.

 

[Enid]

Heather's cool co-worker just dropped off a GIANT bag of dum-dums that she found on a Halloween clearance rack.

I haz 300 Dum-Dums.
It's like the God Of Halloween just visited me.

 

[lynleestar]

I'm secret santa shopping, this is so much fun~!!!

 

[markfm]

Bp back alive, needed a good rap, contact error

 

[lynleestar]

so, B....what kind of k-cups are good??

 

[pringles13]

Saw this at Starbucks and who do ya think we (me & Morgan) thought of?

 

[pringles13]

anything!!!!

 

[pchela]

Saw this at Starbucks and who do ya think we (me & Morgan) thought of?

Ummm... Lox?

 

[pringles13]

Ummm... Lox?

close, but no cake

 

[pchela]

Awww...but I love cake!

 

[keyzygirl]

I got a Blog posted on the V4L website.Guess Im a blogger now.Who woulda thunk that would happen.Its my 2nd one.

 

[db13berry]

Enid! I got my cowl today. It is sooo PRETTY! I love it! Thank you so much!