I almost want this just for the 8X capacity charger is that awesome or what?
What got sold out before these?
Don’t! Resist. (jk you do you). But note that you don’t know what charger it is, is it a time based dumb charger or a slope based smart charger. Also the batteries could be trash fwiw.
Seeing several companies get out of Ni-MH. Won’t be long before Li’s run is over.
Ah it’s the one I saw yesterday, I thought it was something that was gone in minutes. Thanks
I was seriously considering buying those. I’m so sad. Probably better off anyway.
Like whom? A number of brands didn’t manufacture the cells themselves anyway; they bought them from the likes of Panasonic (formerly known as FDK and Sanyo) or GP and put their own name on them.
I iz confused. You’re saying lithium ion’s run will be over soon? Those are a completely different formula and battery class altogether.
I thought this type charger was designed for lithium rechargeable batteries as a sort of containment vessel in case of rupture or explosion. Maybe it’s not a great indication of top quality NiMH batteries.
I’m not a fan of the “keep them in the charger” storage case. If that is poorly designed (and let’s be honest, what isn’t today?) that could actually drain the cells while they are just sitting there not being charged. And you don’t want to leave them on a constant charge, either… 
Apparently so does submerging batteries in water. This was one of the modules out of a hybrid’s high voltage battery pack.
(It’s was fresh water flood, so maybe not the worse that could have happen. Bought it for other parts anyway, so I’m already ahead. And I’m still going to try and recharge them! 
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Yeah, I was thinking about that as I’m looking at my BC-700 from La Crosse Technology… probably better in the long run to use the smart charger, even if the capacity is lower.
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Charging rate may be somewhat controlled by what you plug it into. Since it doesn’t have its own wall-wart / AC adapter, whatever USB-C adapter you plug it into is going to have some power control chip in it and may positively or negatively impact charge rate.
Great charger - I have a similar one from the same brand, and have been using some of the same NiMH cells with it for a decade. Most of those are Eneloops if they have been in service that long.
The point is that the battery tech is highly refined, the chemistry is solid (not going anywhere, even as variants of lithium became more popular), and even with a less fancy charger, you get a lot of value out of these. Good enough offering, even if this isn’t my first choice for charger, or for the cells.
If it works. I’ve had even brand name chargers crap out within a year.
never heard of this brand before so I’m wary, very wary.
As fars the sold out Baseus, I didn’t see details of how much wattage each port gave with all in use. I’ve seen some chargerslabeled 65w, 100w but that was only a sum of all ports, and each port’s max was lower. Can prove to be disappointing.
Oops missed this. I have other Baseus cords and MagSafe batteries, good stuff it
seems.
It’ll come back around again.
I don’t think so. A USB plug just provides power. Any charging is done by “BMS” on the device. Which is most likely dumb.
I thought about that too like OK, the cells are in a connected circuit. Are they going to discharge themselves when in storage?