Problem with Pila IBC Charger?

[jSquared]

Hi all,

Noticed something funny with my Pila today. I got a phone call whilst I was testing a load of batteries and lobbed them one of them on the charger. I came back into the room 5 minutes later, turned on the power, and this is what I saw:



The red LED in bay 1 should be flashing and the green LED should be solid (to indicate that the bay is empty), but, as you can see, the red LED is barely on and the green LED is off. When I switched the battery out and put it in bay 1, everything went back to normal.

The only way I can recreate the issue is to put a battery in bay 2 and turn the power on. It happens every time with every battery I try. I've just finished charging two 18500s and both bays are charging to 4.2V. So...there doesn't appear to be anything fundamentally wrong with the charger itself, but I was wondering if someone else with a Pila could test theirs out to see if it does something similar?

Thanks,

JJ

 

[Switched]

If you read your manual it may say in there that the primary charging bay is bay 1 (the one on the left) which most chargers are set up as. When charging single cells, always use the left bay.

 

[jSquared]

That would make perfect sense - I didn't know that about charging single batteries. Thanks, Switched. For what it's worth, I did re-read the manual last night and it doesn't say anything about it in there:

Pila Flashlights

Link to the manual is at the bottom of the page.

JJ