NiMH Battery Management - Know Thy Battery Charger
March 12th, 2008 by April Lankford, Technical Director & Editor | no responses
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Loading ...Runtimes and Life-Long Service: Batteries are intricate chemical/electronic devices. Avoid overcharging. It will destroy your batteries out the gate.
How to Charge: Take a set of four batteries and color-code or label the bottoms of them with a sharpie or permanent marker. These four batteries with the same mark or number are a fixed set. Charge them together all the time. Use them together all the time. If you are using them in a device needing only two batteries at a time, put the two discharged to the side until all four are spent, and charge them all together as though they were in one battery pack.
Use a Smart Charger: The chargers that will take care of your batteries are going to be smart enough to know when they are full. This is critical for battery care.
Battery Maintenance a Small Effort: If you really want to have those hundreds and hundreds of uses out of each battery, there is an added important step. To maximize how long your batteries last per use, condition your batteries. When the batteries appear to be getting weaker, just throw them on the charger and condition them. It will happen over night. Even as the batteries move into their second and third year of use, conditioning will keep them running. As batteries come to the end of their life-cycles, conditioning will still keep them working. It is recommended by experienced photographers to not condition too much. Probably every 10 to 15 uses of each battery set will do it.
Shallow Discharging is Best for Long Life: When using NiMH batteries and you come to the end of your shooting day, check to see how long the batteries have been in your camera. If they’ve been in there for what seems to be a brief time, it is recommended you put them on charge anyway. Just switch them out. Manufacturers encourage shallow discharge/charge cycles to give the NiMH batteries good long lives.
There is no need to be concerned. If you do not follow these suggestions to the letter, no sweat. They are guidelines. After a while, you will become acquainted with your own rhythm in battery usage. If in all your efforts you received only 500 charges out of each battery, you are way ahead of the curve down Battery Boulevard.
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The Editor: April Lankford, Technical Director & Editor
About: April Lankford has been a television and media technical operating engineer for over 30 years and has watched the development of batteries along with other multi-media technology.
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