How long Does It Take For A Pila To Charge A 18650?

[Striker911]

Just wanting to double check this. Someone said it takes 25 minutes tops to charge a 18650. It takes my charger over 2 hours on average. But about 30 Minutes to charge a 14500. This should be how its suppose to work in my eyes. But I just have to check after hearing otherwise.

 

[finecraft]

It's taking mine a little over the 2 hour mark to charge my 18650 batteries. I put 2 in my Pila when I got home at around
6:00 PM. It is now 8:14 PM and the green lights just came on.

 

[Striker911]

Okay. I bet the person just got the battery size wrong. Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe I should make sure that person knows in case he has a bad charger. maybe it never comes out of fast charging mode or something. But I bet hes just not charging a big battery.

 

[KTaylor]

My 18650 1600mah take about 2 hrs

 

[tobarger]

About 2 to 3 hours is about normal of an 18650
Depending on the mAh rating and initial state of charge

 

[VegasVaporz]

This is weird. I use AW IMR 18650s for my silver bullet. They are honestly taking like thirty minutes to charge on my pila. When I take em off, I check with a voltage meter and they read 4.1 volts. Do I have a Super Pila? Lol

 

[Landlord]

This is weird. I use AW IMR 18650s for my silver bullet. They are honestly taking like thirty minutes to charge on my pila. When I take em off, I check with a voltage meter and they read 4.1 volts. Do I have a Super Pila? Lol

Same here dude.. I've used a lot of different chargers and the pila is by far the fastest charger I've used.. when I first got it I thought my batts went bad or something.. IMR's charge way faster then the protected stuffs too

 

[tobarger]

Yes, you must have a super Pila
Unless you are one of those that recharge batteries that are only about half discharged(>3.5v)

I'll time it next time I charge, in a couple of days

 

[Striker911]

This is weird. I use AW IMR 18650s for my silver bullet. They are honestly taking like thirty minutes to charge on my pila. When I take em off, I check with a voltage meter and they read 4.1 volts. Do I have a Super Pila? Lol

Was just about to link you to this thread. For everyone that has been posting here saying it takes 2-3 hours; Vegas is the person that got me posting this thread. Its a huge fluctuation between what I thought was normal charge times and what your saying your charge time is. I charge mine at 3.2-3.5V and it still takes hours not minutes.

Mine was bought brand new at Provape and has always been this way. The only battery that charges in under an hour is a 14500 and its really hot when the green light comes on. In fact I know its the smallest recommended battery for that charger and I made a thread worried that the 14500's got to hot, and charged to fast.

Vegas, do you use that charger to top off smaller battery's? I would be worried that a smaller battery would vent if it only took like 5 or 10 minutes to charge it.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I use 18650s and it typically takes two hours (almost to the minute) to charge them on my Pila.

 

[ebbrey]

Same here.. 2 hours on aw imr 18650 2000 mah

 

[VegasVaporz]

Was just about to link you to this thread. For everyone that has been posting here saying it takes 2-3 hours; Vegas is the person that got me posting this thread. Its a huge fluctuation between what I thought was normal charge times and what your saying your charge time is. I charge mine at 3.2-3.5V and it still takes hours not minutes.

Mine was bought brand new at Provape and has always been this way. The only battery that charges in under an hour is a 14500 and its really hot when the green light comes on. In fact I know its the smallest recommended battery for that charger and I made a thread worried that the 14500's got to hot, and charged to fast.

Vegas, do you use that charger to top off smaller battery's? I would be worried that a smaller battery would vent if it only took like 5 or 10 minutes to charge it.

Yeah I also charge my 18350 batts on my pila. The 18350s take around 8-9 minutes to charge.

 

[tobarger]

2 Panasonic 18650 2250 mAh batteries charged in a Pila
3 hours 40 minutes

 

[Striker911]

Okay I am convinced that Vegas should get his charger sent in cause so many say it takes longer and the longer times match with the output. Vegas, get your charger checked out before you end up with a venting battery. Thanks to everyone for the confirmation.

 

[tobarger]

After 3 hours 40 minutes of charging
When I removed the batteries from the charger they were warm

 

[Striker911]

After 3 hours 40 minutes of charging
When I removed the batteries from the charger they were warm

My 14500's where so hot that I had to put charging on hold till someone said it was normal for that size battery to be that hot when it came off the charger. That was only a 900mah and it took almost an hour to charge it. He is saying it takes like 5 minutes for his smaller battery to charge. Starting to wonder.

 

[tobarger]

Something is definitely not right
Maybe you could light a cigarette off the battery after 5 minutes of charging

I'd want something like a brick wall between me and that battery charger

 

[MikeE3]

Was just about to link you to this thread. For everyone that has been posting here saying it takes 2-3 hours; Vegas is the person that got me posting this thread. Its a huge fluctuation between what I thought was normal charge times and what your saying your charge time is. I charge mine at 3.2-3.5V and it still takes hours not minutes.

Mine was bought brand new at Provape and has always been this way. The only battery that charges in under an hour is a 14500 and its really hot when the green light comes on. In fact I know its the smallest recommended battery for that charger and I made a thread worried that the 14500's got to hot, and charged to fast.

Vegas, do you use that charger to top off smaller battery's? I would be worried that a smaller battery would vent if it only took like 5 or 10 minutes to charge it.

I charge all my batts (AW IMR's 18350, 18490, 18650) on either my Pila or Xtar 2. Sometimes one may be warm, but I've never had a hot battery come off either charger, even charging the 18350's at 1 amp on the Xtar.

I did some 'google research' on the AW IMR batts. And it "looks like" even charging at 1Amp w/ the Xtar is well within specs for the following batts. Even the lower rated batts are good up to 1.5A and 1A w/ the Xtar is just 2/3's of it's max. To this 'dummy' that seems well within the batts acceptable charging rate. The Pila charging rate is .6 amps, and the Xtar can be set for either .5 or 1 amp

AW IMR Battery specs

Specifications: 18350 700mAh

Nominal Voltage : 3.7V

Capacity : 700mAH 

Lowest Discharge Voltage : 2.50V

Standard Charge : CC/CV ( max. charging rate 1.5A )

Cycle Life : > 500 cycles

Max. continuous discharge rate : 8C

Specifications: 18500 600mAh

Specifications:
Nominal Voltage : 3.7V

Capacity : 600mAH

Lowest Discharge Voltage : 2.50V

Standard Charge : CC/CV (max. charging rate 1.5A)

Cycle Life : > 500 cycles

Max. continuous discharge rate : 8C

Specifications: 18490 1100mAh


Nominal Voltage : 3.7V

Capacity : 1100mAH

Lowest Discharge Voltage : 2.50V

Standard Charge : CC/CV (max. charging rate 1.5A)

Cycle Life : > 500 cycles

Max. continuous discharge rate : 8C

Specifications: 18650 1600mAh

Nominal Voltage : 3.7V

Capacity : 1600mAH

Lowest Discharge Voltage : 2.50V

Standard Charge : CC/CV ( max. charging rate 4.5A )

Cycle Life : > 500 cycles

Max. continuous discharge rate : 10C

Specifications: 18650 2000mAh

Nominal Voltage : 3.7V

Capacity : 2000mAH 

Lowest Discharge Voltage : 2.50V

Standard Charge : CC/CV ( max. charging rate 4.5A )

Cycle Life : > 500 cycles

Max. continuous discharge rate : 10C

 

[tobarger]

2 AW 18650 2000 mAh batteries charged in a Pila
3 hours 15 minutes

 

[tobarger]

2 Panasonic 18650 2250 mAh batteries charged in a Pila
3 hours 40 minutes

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