Lorddrek: Thanks for taking a few minutes to do some tests. Exactly where were you seeing the 114ma though?
This was at the charger output where the battery is screwed into.
Lorddrek: Thanks for taking a few minutes to do some tests. Exactly where were you seeing the 114ma though?
How'd you manage to measure that with the battery connected? Don't tell me you just connected the meter directly to the bare terminals with your meter set to measure mA's? Yikes!
I've tried that. The Kill-A-Watt is not sensitive enough to even register the thing when it's definitely charging, so obviously it's not of much help when the green light comes on.
the charger is irrelevent. Those that ship with the majority of kits are un-protected. the charger will just keep pumping in the voltage regardless if your un-protected battery is full capacity or not. result , Un-protected battery -un-protected charger -forgetfull user-fire.
Ecig batteries are protected. Part of the chippery of the circuit board is a charge protection circuit. When the battery measure 4.2volt the chip cuts the charge pathway preventing anymore power into the battery.
If the battery is still connected to the charger and the battery in idle state drops to 4.1volt the battery charge cicuit opens up the charge pathway and allow another 0.1 volt back into the battery before again closing the pathway at 4.2 volt.
so , If your light turns green the battery isnt accepting more charge but your charger is still producing current to it but the charge protection chip breaks the circuit preventing it reaching the lithium cell.
Light = green : battery charged, battery accepting no further charge.
Light = Red : charge circuit is broken , therefore battery is telling charger it's at capacity.
If your happy to trust a Really cheap bit of cicuit board not to fail ( and we all know how unreliable these batteries are ) and leave them to charge un-attended or worse over-night while you sleep, then your either very naive or have a great fire escape system.
hmmm , well i see two youtube vids of lithium-ion batteries being overcharged and combusting in my post..Since you can't be bothered to bring proof to the table I will do it for you. Check back again soon.
Since your getting agitated I'll just bugger off and let you get on with it.
leave them to charge un-attended or worse over-night while you sleep, then your either very naive or have a great fire escape system.
as for proving batteries can explode...please, it's hardly a mythical concept.
I used 1.2v 3000 to 3600 Li-Ion mah batteries in 4 and 6 packs. batteries were charged to peak before use and then quick charged just before practice or a race. good batteries were always consistent.
Ecig batteries are protected. Part of the chippery of the circuit board is a charge protection circuit. When the battery measure 4.2volt the chip cuts the charge pathway preventing anymore power into the battery.
If the battery is still connected to the charger and the battery in idle state drops to 4.1volt the battery charge cicuit opens up the charge pathway and allow another 0.1 volt back into the battery before again closing the pathway at 4.2 volt.
so , If your light turns green the battery isnt accepting more charge but your charger is still producing current to it but the charge protection chip breaks the circuit preventing it reaching the lithium cell.