Reviews
Good Charger - Works Well!
K&F Concept has produced another fine product, to compliment several others that they currently produce.
This is pretty simple NP-F battery charger, but with a total of four charging bays - that's excellent! If you have a number of NP batteries, it's great to be able to load up this charger and not have to worry about swapping out charged batteries every few hours. After a shoot, just collect all your batteries, put them in the charger and walk away. Come back in the morning, everything is up and ready to go. Nice!
The bottom of the charger is just one big, flat surface - save for the slight rings around the four screw holes that hold the unit together. Four silicone "stick-on feet" do wonders in terms of keeping the unit on a table. The charger uses a standard AC cord that attaches to one side of the charger. It's a decent flat, electrical cord, 18AWG and with a standard two-prong plug. That end plug has a very good strain relief and is very easy to grab and pull out of an outlet. At slightly over three feet, it could use a longer cable, in my opinion. I am tired of short electrical cords.
The display is clear and displays in green. It can also show 1. Charge, 2. Error, 3. Discharge, as well as showing the amount of charge in the battery. I would prefer a 4 bar graph, but this displays in a 3 segment bar.
I did not disassemble the unit to check on this, but I have had chargers where the input power connector is directly soldered to the motherboard. The problem with that, is that after a lot of putting the cable and then taking the cable out, the motherboard can break. This has happened to me on more than one occasion. The only solution I can offer, is to keep the cable attached to the charger as much as you can. Unplug the unit from the mains when not in use, but leave the other connection attached to the charger.
Bottom Line - A decent charger, that offers 4 independent and separate slots for charging up NP batteries, at 1000mA, 8.4volts. Also makes an excellent back-up battery charger, too!
This is pretty simple NP-F battery charger, but with a total of four charging bays - that's excellent! If you have a number of NP batteries, it's great to be able to load up this charger and not have to worry about swapping out charged batteries every few hours. After a shoot, just collect all your batteries, put them in the charger and walk away. Come back in the morning, everything is up and ready to go. Nice!
The bottom of the charger is just one big, flat surface - save for the slight rings around the four screw holes that hold the unit together. Four silicone "stick-on feet" do wonders in terms of keeping the unit on a table. The charger uses a standard AC cord that attaches to one side of the charger. It's a decent flat, electrical cord, 18AWG and with a standard two-prong plug. That end plug has a very good strain relief and is very easy to grab and pull out of an outlet. At slightly over three feet, it could use a longer cable, in my opinion. I am tired of short electrical cords.
The display is clear and displays in green. It can also show 1. Charge, 2. Error, 3. Discharge, as well as showing the amount of charge in the battery. I would prefer a 4 bar graph, but this displays in a 3 segment bar.
I did not disassemble the unit to check on this, but I have had chargers where the input power connector is directly soldered to the motherboard. The problem with that, is that after a lot of putting the cable and then taking the cable out, the motherboard can break. This has happened to me on more than one occasion. The only solution I can offer, is to keep the cable attached to the charger as much as you can. Unplug the unit from the mains when not in use, but leave the other connection attached to the charger.
Bottom Line - A decent charger, that offers 4 independent and separate slots for charging up NP batteries, at 1000mA, 8.4volts. Also makes an excellent back-up battery charger, too!
21/11/2024