please help me choose a 4 bay 18650 charger with discharge testings on alll bays

raggie33

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and under 40 bucks. it dont need to be usb powered but if it is that is a bonus
 

WalkIntoTheLight

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Probably something like the Liitokala Engineer Li-500. It's a good all-'round charger, with discharge testing at the 250mA and 500mA levels. It doesn't have USB input power, though. 12v or household A/C only.

I reviewed it some time ago:

 

Lynx_Arc

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I don't think you are going to find a decent 4 channel charger that supports USB input as it is just too much current for a typical micro USB cable they tend to not take much more than about 2-3A. I have a single channel charger that takes micro USB.
The Opus BT -C3100 is about $40 online I don't have one as my budget ran out before I could get one I am using an Opus BT-C100.
I think you need to decide a few things before you invest in a charger: What type/size cells you want to charger, if you desire to analyze (charge/discharge testing) cells or not, current settings per chemistry (lowest, highest current), readout (analog, digital) and power source.
If it were me I would lean towards a charger with a 12v input so you could in an outage plug it into a car and use the car battery to charge off of. Some 1-2 channel chargers have micro USB inputs so you could use a USB car charger with them perhaps.
Unless you are using a light putting out massive amounts of light you may possibly get by with a 1-2 cell charger instead of 4 channel but
most 4 channel chargers that do lithium ion also do nimh too.
You could also try looking at HKJ's site for reviews of chargers to give you some ideas.
 
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