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recharging

  • 01-01-2010 4:41pm
    #1
    KC JONES
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭


    Do you have to wait till a car battery is completely or almost completely dead before recharging as with a laptop battery.

    This is a spare battery not in car but used to jump a few times


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  • #2
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,401 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    No Lead acid batteries can be float charged, they don't need to be empty. This is exactly how they are charged in your car by the alternator, every day.


  • #3
    KC JONES
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭KC JONES


    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    No Lead acid batteries can be float charged, they don't need to be empty. .
    cheers;)
    This is exactly how they are charged in your car by the alternator, every day.
    I should have thought of that:o


  • #4
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    KC JONES wrote: »
    Do you have to wait till a car battery is completely or almost completely dead before recharging as with a laptop battery.

    Will we ever get away from the legacy of nasty NIMH crap!?
    That is totally not how you should charge a (modern) Lithium based laptop battery, infact you will screw it up if you do that.
    Extreme low voltage must also be prevented. The safety circuit is designed to cut off the current path if the battery is inadvertently discharged below 2.50V/cell. At this voltage, most circuits render the battery unserviceable and a recharge on a regular charger is not possible.
    There are several safeguards to prevent excessive discharge.
    http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-12.htm

    I used to work for a multimedia hardware vendor and customers letting their units discharge (not laptops, same battery type though) completely was flipping the safety circuit and preventing them from being charged up properly again.

    Please do not intentionally run down the battery in any IT product you have bought in the last 5years!


  • #5
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    A lead acid battery should never be allowed to go flat, or even low, it drastically affects the battery life.


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