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Well, I have been searching for about 30 minutes trying to totally get my story straight about the whole charging battteries deal... Basically the idea that you shouldn't discharge them too much, nor overcharge them either.
The part that I'm stuck is that there's no one place that I've found that is like a guide on how to treat your batteries. Up until now, I basically just bought batteries, and the only experience with LiIon batteries is in my BlackBerry lol
Anyway.
What I was hoping to do was make a noob-guide for battery charging, but then I realized I don't have all the information I need readily available.
That being said, I do have a bunch of questions I was hoping we could get some answers to and I'll make a guide of sorts for new folks like myself that are scared of blowing a battery up by accident lol
So my questions are along the lines of:
How do you know if you're getting close to needing to charge your battery?
How do you prevent overcharging?
What is this 'protected battery' thing, what does it do and what are the up/downsides to it?
What are some best practices you folks follow to get the most out of your batteries?
In what situations could a battery actually explode?
For someone who isn't super savvy with electricity, when we talk about mAh, resistance and voltage/amperage, how do those all play into the operation of batteries in laymans terms? The lower the resistance the better, because it means less heat, but what are the other benefits?
I think those are enough questions for now but I'm going to scour other threads trying to decipher answers on my own.
Thanks in advance for any clarification that could be offered
The part that I'm stuck is that there's no one place that I've found that is like a guide on how to treat your batteries. Up until now, I basically just bought batteries, and the only experience with LiIon batteries is in my BlackBerry lol
Anyway.
What I was hoping to do was make a noob-guide for battery charging, but then I realized I don't have all the information I need readily available.
That being said, I do have a bunch of questions I was hoping we could get some answers to and I'll make a guide of sorts for new folks like myself that are scared of blowing a battery up by accident lol
So my questions are along the lines of:
How do you know if you're getting close to needing to charge your battery?
How do you prevent overcharging?
What is this 'protected battery' thing, what does it do and what are the up/downsides to it?
What are some best practices you folks follow to get the most out of your batteries?
In what situations could a battery actually explode?
For someone who isn't super savvy with electricity, when we talk about mAh, resistance and voltage/amperage, how do those all play into the operation of batteries in laymans terms? The lower the resistance the better, because it means less heat, but what are the other benefits?
I think those are enough questions for now but I'm going to scour other threads trying to decipher answers on my own.
Thanks in advance for any clarification that could be offered