Friday, April 1, 2016

Tank007 Tells you Some Tips About Li-ion battery

When Li-ion batteries came out, people do not know how to use the new batteries, and some mistaken ways occurs, even now, there are some mistakes when using the new lithium batteries. Here this article will share you some common mistakes.
No.1: "exhausted, fully charged"
Some people think the new battery need to be exhausted and fully charged. But in fact, it is not necessary. As is known to us, Li-ion batteries have memory effect, but this effect is minimal enough to be ignored. But why the Li-ion battery’s life get shorter? In fact, that’s because the active substance used in the battery are aging over time, which have nothing to do with the how much you charge the battery or how much are left in the battery.
Generally speaking, the Li-ion battery’s life is related to how many time it is charged and discharged. Common lithium batteries for the flashlight can be charged and discharged 300 to 500 times. The natural loss of battery reduces the life significantly. And frequently charging and discharging speed up the aging process. So, in this point, we’d better use the battery to the least power and then fully charged it. But do not have to follow the "exhausting, fully charging" principles which is told by LED flashlight sellers.
No.2: The new lithium batteries need to be activated by three full charges and discharges, and the first charge need to be 10 hours or more.
Many flashlight sellers often tell the customers to fully charge and discharge the battery three times so as to activate the battery in order to ensure the efficiency of the battery. But actually, the customers do not need to do that for the activation process has been finished in the factory before they go to the market. An evidence is that, the battery has a little amount of power.
In addition, the activation process should be completed without "overcharge" protection circuit. But the current lithium battery has its own protection circuit internal, and chargers also have "over-charge" protection circuit. So, we cannot activate the lithium battery ourselves according to the method told by the sellers.
Under normal circumstances, when the charge lamp turns off, it means the battery rejects further charge, even plug again you can not charge the battery anymore. Therefore, ten hours’ charge or more is not necessary to activate a lithium battery. But a full charge is necessary before you use the battery for the activity decreases over time.
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