Sub_Umbra
Flashlight Enthusiast
SilverFox,Hello Cam,
Welcome to CPF.
It is not quite as difficult as Sub Umbra makes it out to be. He, myself, and others are just put off by the inadequate instructions that came with this charger. It would have been nice to have this "undocumented" procedure "documented."...
As usual, you sum things up pretty well. I use the AP 2020 and the C808M and for my needs those two chargers work together very well. Contrary to my ravings I like the C808M well enough that I would buy the exact same charger again, even if it was accurately discribed in the ads. It does what it does for me so well that I have no qualms about it's functionality. It is only Maha's advertizing distortions and the lack of a comprehensive owners manual that really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
This page contains a copy of the AP 2020's manual which seems pretty complete and lacks (many of) the distortions and omissions of the one page instruction sheet that comes with the Maha C808M. AccuPower thoughtfuly provides a manual that attempts to make all of the features of their product accessable to the buyer even though the ticket price is less than 60% of the Maha. If I run across the instruction sheet that came with my Maha I'll scan it and put up a link to it.
While the feature sets of the two chargers are like apples and oranges, at least Accupower makes an effort to explain its product's capabilities to the purchaser. IMO Maha does a disservice to it's product and it's customer base by making generalized claims for this high quality product that are not accurately supported in the documentation it ships with.
I would love to be able to do a search for all of my posts about the C808M instruction sheet and edit each of them to reflect that this issue has been resolved.
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