Nitecore intellicharger question

[8tone8]

hey guys just out of my concerns,I own a nitecore intellicharger i2.I accidently left my batteries charging overnight.I read it stops charging is it true?will leaving in overnight ruin my batteries?

 

[jdake3265]

no, it shuts off after it realizes your battery is at full capacity, the output is 4.2 volts, which is what a fully charged battery is. So it stops when your battery is full.

 

[classwife]

Moved to batteries and Chargers from Simple Solutions




Simple Solutions is to assist Beginning Vapers

 

[anumber1]

It's just pretty much a safe practice to pull batteries from a charger when they are charged. The reasoning is that should your charger malfunction and not stop charging there is no chance of overcharge.

Cheap chargers (think no name or "fire" in the name) may include a trickle "maintenance" charge function (however, not "intelligently", it just does the trickle and does not monitor over voltage conditions). It is trouble.
li batteries do not need a maintenance charge. That is pretty much a recipe to overcharge your batteries by leaving them on the charger too long.

Many of the higher end chargers will monitor a battery left in the charger and restart charging if it senses a voltage drop. A healthy Li-Mn battery should have very little storage voltage drop however and such a feature is not really necessary in every day use. The NiteCore chargers fall into this category of higher end "intelligent" charger.

You did no damage to your batteries. It is just a much safer practice to not leave batteries on a charger once they are charged.

 

[AzPlumber]

As posted above the "smart" chargers will shutoff after a full charge. The problem with charging unattended is no one is there to react should something go wrong. If the charger or the battery were to fail and cause a fire while asleep, that is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Fictitious Character]

I use the nitecore i4 and when I have nothing on the charger I unplug it. Hopefully it does not harm the unit but it feels safer to me.

 

[Rickajho]

I use the nitecore i4 and when I have nothing on the charger I unplug it. Hopefully it does not harm the unit but it feels safer to me.

Not plugging in a NiteFireCore is always a good thing.

 

[Fictitious Character]

Not plugging in a NiteFireCore is always a good thing.

As long as it never lives up to that nick I will be happy.

 

[jdake3265]

I woke up this morning to a fire on my bedside, I quickly put it out and I removed the extremely red hot battery from melting my carpet. I had vented my VTC5 and charged it overnight, I don't know why it did this, please carefully watch any battery that has been vented while it is charging, if one of my juice bottles hadn't melted and caught on fire i might of been seriously injured. I am in a mild shock right now, please, please be careful if anything doesn't seem right with anything. I think I am going to take a break from vaping for a while. Please, please, please stay safe.

Or maybe i will just be extremely careful from now on.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Just to clarify, you charged a battery after it had vented? That's a very very bad idea.

 

[DaveP]

If a battery swells, smells, or leaks it goes in the trash.

The charger may be suspect at this point, too. I wouldn't trust any ICR or lMR charger when i can't monitor it. If your battery vented while charging, the battery is definitely toast and should be discarded. I wouldn't be so trusting of the charger after an incident with a battery venting, either.

 

[jdake3265]

Just to clarify, you charged a battery after it had vented? That's a very very bad idea.

yeah, i didn't know, all i knew was that i had a dead battery, then i released the gasses and it showed that it had voltage, i even vaped on it for a day.