I need help! Battery charging questions

[Kimmy]

I feel like I am going crazy lately. I have two chargers. The old USB charger, along with the standard wall charger. Lately the wall charger seems to be openly discriminating against certain batteries. The USB charger charges all of the batteries, but sometimes takes over a day to complete, or it never turns green at all. All of my batteries seem to be taking 8 hours + to charge. Am I going crazy? Could this be from battery neglect (not cleaning them out) or are my batteries simply too old and need to be replaced? One of the batteries is semi-new the others are 1-2 years old. I just want to deduce what the problem is so I know what to order to fix my hair-pulling dilemma. Thank you for any assistance ya'll can share!

Oh and should I retire some of my old batteries? I hate to see them go, but are there any safety hazards I should be concerned about?

 

[Morandir835]

Ms. Kimmy would clean the chargers and batteries before anything else (Snow sir has 2 great how to videos on his youtube channel). If you're still having issues after that could be the chargers need to be replaced. If the batts are still holding their usual run times they should be ok, it's when they no longer hold a charge it's time to retire them. Hope this helps.

 

[SnowDragon]

Kimmy there is no reason to worry about safety hazards when it comes to older KR batteries. As Mor said, I would definitely clean the batts and chargers, raise the posts a little on the batteries in question and vape'em till they die. Longer charge times aren't as bad as quicker charge times. If you have drained a battery all the way down and it charges in 30 minutes....it's on it's last legs. Not bad...1-2 years huh? I think you got your monies worth out of the those.

I have never used a USB charger, but if it is 1-2 years old it might need replacing.


Hope this helps....

 

[Kimmy]

Thanks guys! I just did a battery cleaning (will admit it has been a few months) I still have my very first blue v4l battery from my first kit. Still works. It's a little skinner than the current batteries and has v4l logo all over it. Love it.

 

[SnowDragon]

Kimmy did you by chance clean your chargers too? I forgot to mention with the wall charger, you may want to disconnect the cord from the back and then plug it back into just to make sure it's seated correctly.

 

[waylonjessi4ever]

Yup ..been to snows and morandir's care classes and its never done me wrong
Wow 1 year on a battery ! my first two are history ! Yup you got your money's worth !

 

[waylonjessi4ever]

Thanks guys! I just did a battery cleaning (will admit it has been a few months) I still have my very first blue v4l battery from my first kit. Still works. It's a little skinner than the current batteries and has v4l logo all over it. Love it.

Kimmy ..clean them every week

 

[keyzygirl]

I still have a few of the older ful logo batts.They are my favs.I hate to think of retiring them.

 

[plantlvr]

Kimmy ..clean them every week

Every week!? And you thought I was nutz for filling cartos to last a week

 

[waylonjessi4ever]

I don't think your nutz i just dont have the patience but i wish i had em for a week
I really do clean em once a week ...does not take long at all I imagine that when she said its been a few months snow may have fallen over .You can tell my his videos he is very precise and neat .