Newbie Questions regarding CGR18650CH Charging

[fergie716]

Hello all, this is my first thread here. Just wanna give a quick thanks to everyone here, so much great information.

Moving on, I recently purchased an Innokin SVD along with a Panasonic CGR18650CH battery. A friend of mine who owns a local vape shop gave me a charger to use until I buy my own. The charger he gave me is the sigelei charger that comes with some of their kits. Here's the specs on the charger:

INPUT: 100-240V AC 50/60Hz
OUTPUT: 4.2V DC 1000MA

Now, when I first received the Panasonic battery I checked the charge and it was at 3.6. I started charging it, read somewhere it takes around 2-2.5 hrs to fully charge. I let it charge for around 1 hour 50 mins, the indicator light was still red, checked it and it read 4.2 on my SVD, which I believe is full for this battery? I'm probably wrong on that

Anyway, I know better chargers are recommended and I have a few more batteries coming my way and plan on getting a better charger ASAP but in the meantime is it safe to continue using this charger? I don't know why the indicator light doesn't turn green when the battery reaches 4.2V which worries me. So I just charge the battery for an hour or so when it gets below 3.6V and make sure nothing wonky is going on.

Thanks for reading and any insight is greatly appreciated

 

[hvac999]

Your SVD is probably off +/- 2 volts. I wouldn't worry about it and the charger will turn green in due time if there are no problems with it.

 

[Borescoped]

Is the charger branded with the Sig name on it? Or is it a different brand? That would be helpful to know also, so folks can help you out better.

 

[fergie716]

Your SVD is probably off +/- 2 volts. I wouldn't worry about it and the charger will turn green in due time if there are no problems with it.

Oh OK thank you! I just get worried about over charging it and ruining the battery/charger/device

Is the charger branded with the Sig name on it? Or is it a different brand? That would be helpful to know also, so folks can help you out better.

Yes, it has the SIGELEI logo on the back. And it's a single bay

 

[StarDose]

With your SVD you can either charge when the fire button turns red indicating low battery or when your SVD stops firing letting you know its time to charge. Either way is safe and works the SVD won't let the battery get too low to protect it against damage.

 

[fergie716]

Thanks for the help everyone, I received my two brand new Panasonic CGR18650CH's today and I charged them using the Segelei charger in question. It took around 2.5 hours to charge but eventually the LED indicator turned green on the charger.

So it looks like it's OK, however when I took the battery off I smelled it and it did smell odd, it's hard to describe what the exact smell is but whatever it was it wasn't strong and I couldn't smell it from a few feet away. I'm assuming it was because it was fresh off the charger?