XTAR PB2SL V2 USB C Battery Charger Not Included Battery

I ran into this XTAR one day looking for something completely unrelated. Decided to give it a shot, and fell in love immediately. For a few reasons, but mostly because after using it just for a day or two, it was obvious that the designers of this, took a lot of care, and did the research in order to make it remarkable, and it really is. So, full disclosure, I am a vaper. My daily device does use replaceable 18650 Lithium batteries. It can be annoying to try to make sure you have a fully charged one before I set off for the day in the morning. Hence why I had been looking for a device to solve that for me. This is fantastic battery charger, and if you use it just as that, you will be satisfied, it does everything that a standard charger will do. with all the latest safety features so it knocks the battery charger side of things out of the park in my opinion. When it is charging batteries, the info display stays on, not for 30 seconds, or 60, but until its unplugged. It supports fast charging (9v &12v QC) and lets you know when that fast charging is active with the voltage read out. It supports pretty much all sizes of lithium cells I know of other than maybe the extremely short side of the spectrum. It even protects the circuitry from reverse polarity. If you are like me and have the need to charge all kinds of stuff on the go, this is highly recommended.

I really like this battery bank. I like that the batteries are removable / replaceable with the standard 18650 batteries that fit in other items I have like flashlights. I can carry more capacity by just having more batteries to insert. I can use this to charge an 18650 for the flashlight by swapping them around. I can charge this with a portable USB-C solar panel, or in the car or an AC cube. What I wish they would improve is the durability, especially the lid. I drop it and the magnet attached battery compartment lid pops off. I like the magnet. Its slick and simple, but this is something I carry in a pack or pocket and I just drop it once in a while. The magnet ALSO pops out and I have glued it back in several times with epoxy or cyanoacrylate, and it just doesn't stay. A hit still pops the lid and the magnet goes too. Thankfully I haven't lost that tiny magnet yet. I don't hate it, but hopping they read this and maybe make a slightly better lid or a whole new rugged tested version. I think they could make something like this that uses their XTAR Lithium AA/ AAA 1.5 batteries, as a charger AND as a portable bank for charging other electronics. I would sure buy one. I think this an unknown gem for people who like to be prepared.

I've got a bunch of 18650 batteries now that I've learned how to safely tear them out of various devices (ie., a laptop that doesn't work anymore with a removable battery? Free batteries!!). This makes this device perfect for utilizing those batteries! Now, my gripes: I have a Zanflare charger that gives me the right voltages of the batteries, and this charger will not show the correct voltage of the battery. It does seem to measure it correctly because it does display the correct %. For example, plugging this cell into my Zanflare tells me that the voltage is 3.82v. My understanding is that many lithium ion batteries are fully charged at 4.2v, and the XTAR does tell me that the battery is at 61%. It does seem to measure the correct amperage when charging the battery via USB-C. My second gripe is I wish the cover's magnets were stronger. The magnet feature is a super nice touch and I really like it, but for example if I allow my kids to use the battery pack, those batteries will be lost. I'd have to tape it shut but then I have tape all over my nice battery charger. I also wish I could give this a 3.5 rating. I'm not happy enough with it to give it 4 stars, but not unhappy enough to give a 3. I guess I'll leave it at a 4 since many vendors do work hard for ratings since inaccurate bad ratings can kill a business, but hopefully this review will help some potential buyers make an informed decision.

Only used a few times but so far so good. Iots of features. Compact, light weight, the menu screen isn't but feels clumsy not sharp, works well.

I salvage 18650 batteries from spent battery packs. This charger allows me to charge the batteries but I mostly use it as a power bank. You get the advantage of more use from batteries you might recycle and throw away. The higher mAh with the 18650 batteries lasts longer than AA battery banks. I like the digital readout. I bought a second one to keep in another location.

So I got my hands on two of these units, One I received as a christmas gift and the other I purchased because at first I loved the idea and wanted to have a second unit. After having these for more than a week or two theyve become essentially useless or standard 5v @1-1.5amp chargers. Essentially the issue is that the controller seems to have issues deciding if it wants to take the charge or supply the charge, and the annoyance is the single button doesnt allow you to manually control it either. When I try and charge a device that supports 12v charging (PD/QC3+) it never supplies the power, it initially will charge 12v at maybe 1 amp but after a few seconds it drops dramatically to like .1 amps or lower. Ive tested this across many devices such as my note 9, s8 plus, switch, 2 laptops (that support PD) etc. I do not recommend this for anyone as they seem to have the right idea of a unique charger but completely fail at creating a quality product.

12v @ nearly 3A is way too much for most batteries, and without a proper way to dial back the power input, I would never trust these for anything other than hOhmTech batteries or equivalent quality cells. USBC charging is an awesome feature. Does function as a power pack for charging your devices. Capacity all depends on what cells you utilize.

It's really screwy as a phone charger. Completely drained a set of 18650 and only charged the phone 5 percent. Even then, it disconnected the charge flow or jumped around in voltage often, while just sitting on my desk

This is too notch charging and there is no competition but the paint pelled off on top and waved on the side still satisfied I was never able to use qc for charging but USB protocol worked at high speed of charging buy it might be a manufacturing mistake or something happened to my units somehow...

The picture implies you get 4 of these, you only get one (I rxed black)….

Not very happy: 1, As you can see, the 21700 battery is way longer than the slot, can not be put in as the manufacture's ad, mine is the flathead, I don't know what kind of 21700 they use. 2, Charging speed is 1.4, just normal charging, not fast. 3, My Samsung S20+ is 4500mha, I use two same brand 18650 total 7000 mha, only charge to 60%, so not sure that's the battery or this bank's issue. If you already have lot's 18650 battery, that's good for you, otherwise buy fasting charging power bank