[Shop-talk] Battery Clarification

[Pat Horne]

Moose,

I think you are doing pretty much what you should do with the DeWalt 
batteries. They don't like deep discharge. I usually remove my batteries 
from the charger after about 24 hrs. This gives them time to charge 
fully, and run through the "conditioning" cycle that my charger says it 
does. I've absent mindedly left batteries in the charger longer, with 
the charger not plugged in and the batteries are totally discharged in a 
couple of days. I try to not leave them on charge longer than 24 hours 
though. I have been getting 4 or 5 years out of my batteries.

Peace,
Pat

Thusly spake eric at megageek.com:
> OK, for some reason I seem to have a knack for killing rechargable
> batteries.  I wanted to see if I can get some guidance here on what I'm
> doing wrong.
>
> The 2 types of batteries are Ni-cad dewalt 18v and my Lithium ion 3.7v for
> my digital camera.
>
> How I use them...
>
> Dewalt.  I leave one battery in the tool and one on the charger.  I use the
> battery until it should the first sign of weakening.  Then I swap
> batteries.  I never run them down after they start to weaken.
>
> Camera.  I charge the batteries fully, then leave them ouside of the
> camera.  I put one in the camera and us it for a dive (this is for an
> underwater dive camera.) after about an hour of one and offs of the camera
> and a bunch of pics, I switch the batteries topside.  Then I charge them
> both before I store them.  (I normally charge them right before I use them
> to "top them off" also.
>
> Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.  Thanks!
>
>
>
> Moose
>
> "We all know we're dying, And there's no sign of a parachute."
>      Tori Amos
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