Hello everyone, I have an ego-twist and an evod battery. I want to charge them but they have not completely ran out of charge yet. Is it better to wait until they are drained before charging?
Battery Charging Question
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I have a Kanger EVOD VV too, and I wonder the same thing...if I should leave one on so it drains. Typically ive been charging em up when they get kinda weak, no real way to tell when its really out of battery life..is there?
Lithium ion batteries do not have any memory like nicads do. The best deal for them is to never totally discharge them. Your e-cig will stop that from happening, but charging the battery earlier is actually even better for them.
I started vaping on a VV twist style and I would charge mine every night no matter. They are Lithium Ion batteries and have no charge "memory" so with that being said it doesn't hurt them to top off a battery with a fresh charge. It is good to let them drain completely then recharge every once in a while but its not necessary
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Edit; it is not good to completely drain them. But they will cut off before that happens
Great news to hear! I like to charge mine at night too but I guess now my second question is... do I need to worry about over charging?
From my experiences with batteries ( LiIon - Li Po - NiCad etc) The Li. batteries dont have the "memory" that is found in NiCad batteries... so... You really dont have to run them down to total discharge and revitalize them as in NiCad setups. Once I see the Li. sets get down to 3.3 volts ( and if you have a convienient voltage display to check yours for the 3.3v) I put them back on the charger at 3.3 - 3.5V. Li. batteries have a tendency to hold a voltage for a while with a steady drop to a point then they really drop quickly... its like they work thru 4.1 to 3.4 then all of a sudden die out... this is a normal situation kinda like the gas tank in your car it works and then when you are empty it dies... time to refill. The engineers who designed the batteries know what they were doing ... they designed into the battery and its capacity to be abused by us the consumer ( who can be the best abuser of anything out on the market). Depending on the battery, it can be recharged 300-1000 times before EOL ( end of life) and the EOL of a battery is dependent on its quality ( cost)
Sooo... when you see your battery not doing what it normally does recharge it... expect 1 - 3 yrs life from it. just to let you know... there are quite a few parameters that are involved with batteries primarily the "C" factor... the capacity of the battery to provide a certian number of amps when it is used. The higher the C factor the more UMPH the battery has kinda like a 10 D cells compared to a Car battery both have the same voltage but the car battery has a whole lot more available amps to burn.
Sooo... when you see your battery not doing what it normally does recharge it... expect 1 - 3 yrs life from it. just to let you know... there are quite a few parameters that are involved with batteries primarily the "C" factor... the capacity of the battery to provide a certian number of amps when it is used. The higher the C factor the more UMPH the battery has kinda like a 10 D cells compared to a Car battery both have the same voltage but the car battery has a whole lot more available amps to burn.
if you have a decient charger then no is the answer it will cut off before overcharge voltage/current is achieved
if you have a decient charger then no is the answer it will cut off before overcharge voltage/current is achieved
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