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johntheawe

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I'm going to have the Nitecore i4 v2 coming in the mail today. I went back to the page where I bought it to see how fast it charged. I found that there were 3 charging modes. CC, CV, and Trickle Charge. I can sort of guess what trickle charge is, but what mode is the FASTEST for me to charge my 18650's at? I have 2 shitty 1600mAh Sony VCT3's until I get my smurfs and my purple efest's later and it's going to be a day before I get the smurfs, and a whole month before the efests come in. On my sig at 0.3 ohm twisted 26 gauge builds, they tend to last me a very short amount of time because they are only 1600mAh. I just want to know the fastest and safest mode to charge them at. Thanks for any help in advance!
 

Whiskey

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As far as I know because I have one, there are no settings on charging speeds , all batteries are different in charge times.
 

johntheawe

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There are 3 settings, like I said. CC, CV, and Trickle Charge. Maybe they aren't even different speeds. I just need to know what the best one for 18650's is.
 

johntheawe

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Oh, wow lol xD
Would you looky there ;) Oops.
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UncleRJ

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I really don't know.

My chargers give me the option to pick between 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 amps.

And I charge my 18650's at 1.0 amp
 

johntheawe

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That screenshot shows that it actually auto-detects which mode to switch to.
 

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