External universal chargers for Fairphone batteries

[silverdrake11]

I bought one of these and tried it out for the fairphone 5 battery. It seems to work okay. Charges to 85% like you said. It’s a max of 0.5A so it’s not that much current (you have to switch it to that since there is also 0.1A option). It takes around 10 hours to charge. Apparently Adafruit also sells a 1A version but haven’t tried it, and it has a different usb connector.

It’s hard to get the wires in there, you have to adjust the battery on table carefully so the end of battery kinda falls on the wires to make contact.

[silverdrake11]

Update on this. I found the actual fp5 battery connector on aliexpress. They are all the same so you can shop around for a good deal, except it has to be the 7 pin 2mm one, not 2.5mm. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807309500432.html

It’s called a male battery blade connector 7 pin 2mm pitch. It snaps into place for the fairphone 5 and it maintains connection. (The male connector goes into the female battery port.) I soldered the wires from the adafruit charger to the male connector and it works perfectly to plug into the fp5 battery

[AnotherElk]

@stefan.nestelberger

I just left this here so that, if you are desperate and in search of a universal charger, you have another makeshift option that might be available in a mobile shop nearby as a last resort.

Or via the internet from a number of vendors in China. Here are e.g. Google picture search results for this picture of it …

Or for this one …

(Just because I finally got curious why this particular charger didn’t readily show up in force online when searching for its supposed brand + name.
While I had good experiences so far with a different type of cheap-o charger, just looking at the prices online I would make sure to have a fire extinguisher around, too, when using this .)

For users not reading or remembering the post above which I cited … words of caution:

@stefan.nestelberger

Important the contacts of the charger are too wide to fit into the slits of the FP3 battery, so I had to twist them with pliers. A little piece broke off of the contact because its so flimsy, but it still works fine for me.

[AxelFFF]

My charging for FF5 does not work reliably (switching the usb module didnt help) and i am still waiting for support to answer, so I am migrating and in order to do that I need a full battery, so I am looking how to charge it. And wasnt too happy with aliexpress so I am looking for a more local (austria/europe) supplier:

@silverdrake11

It’s called a male battery blade connector 7 pin 2mm pitch.

It seems in german its called ‘Stiftleiste mit 2mm Raster’
Buchsenleiste could also work in some settings.
Found something here Stiftleisten zB abgewinkelt, einreihig, Raster 2mm

[Meaghan]

Hi, do you just need a fully charged battery for a few hours? Perhaps a local FP angel could help with that?
Hopefully you will get it all sorted with FP5 soon.

[AxelFFF]

@Meaghan

Hi, do you just need a fully charged battery for a few hours? Perhaps a local FP angel could help with that?

I found out my angel is on holidays, so I went for soldering a 2.5mm blade connector i had lying around to a “universal” charger, which was too slim for the FF5 battery. It looks awful, but it works.
Thanks for the wishes and the idea, appreciated