Thread: Battery charger - NITECORE SC4 - Recommended

On my last 4 day/3 night rabbit hunt, I was getting rather frustrated with early 'power outages' on my torches using pairs of 18650's. I was actually beginning to question my torch circuitry since I couldn't get much more than 15 minutes before the lights would fail. Now I'm just a dumb ingineer and not a clever electrical technician, so my solution was to tape my spare head torch to the rifle stock and use my spare cabled 18650 quad packs. Problem solved!

One of the guys on the trip was using single battery lights, and was using a Nitecore charger (cant recall the model), but it had a whole lot of charging information on the screen. So, when I got home I decided to have a look at what was available.
After searching out Aliexpress, I decided to purchase a NITECORE SC4 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-...311.0.0.RK6MSS
So the charger arrived last week, and yesterday I cycled all of my batteries through. Found 3 of 12 that the charger rated as "POOR" in terms of internal resistance. After charging them up, I put them into a single cell torch, and sure enough, after 3-4 minutes, the low voltage indicator LED on the torch started flashing.

This charger is great. You get a whole host of charging information come up on the screen, and you can select which battery to view ant any point in time, and you can easily identify dud cells - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!