Battery charging

[EKat]

Hi, I have two egos and a vision spinner and was just wondering about if I can charge halfway thru it or do I have to wait for one to completely empty and need a charge? Does it hurt battery life or anything? Thanks

 

[Thrasher]

I never noticed a problem doing this, i would come home from work and charge my egos for work without ever checking if they were dead.

 

[Choc_Addic]

It's better to recharge them every chance you get.

You don't damage/shorten life by charging too often. These are Li-on batteries.

Treat them as your cel phone. Don't let them go too low as it's shut down.

Cheers.

 

[bacc.vap]

No problem, just charge whenever.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Hello.

Due to the nature of the batteries and your time, once the light blinks to re-charge, it should be charged again to full. If you have three, I would assume that while one is charging, the other two are charged and ready to go. Once in a while, you could probably get away with it, but doing the half charge constantly will train your batt to do just that and shortens the life span over all significally.


ps. I have only the older joytech egos and they are still going strong. It's been about 3yrs give or take a few months. Never owned an ego wanna be.

 

[Choc_Addic]

Shallow charges are best for these I'm afraid.

Read: HERE. And HERE.

Perform shallow discharges. Instead of discharging to 0% all the time, lithium-ion batteries do best when you discharge them for a little bit, then charge them for a little bit. The table at the right, from Battery University, shows that discharges to 50% are better for your battery's long-term life than, say, small discharges to 90% or large discharges to 0% (since the 50% discharges provide the best number of cycles-to-usage ratio).

Cheers

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Shallow charges are best for these I'm afraid.

Read: HERE. And HERE.


Cheers

That is good to know. Thanks for the info. My how times have changed since I started ecigs. I always just depended on when the light started blinking, I knew it was time to charge...Kinda like when my provari's now start to blink...

 

[Richard Michael]

AGREED!!! These batteries develop "memory" it's best to let them go to 0. Then FULLY CHARGE THEM. Especially if you have 2 or 3 in rotation.... Let them die completely.

 

[Choc_Addic]

AGREED!!! These batteries develop "memory" it's best to let them go to 0. Then FULLY CHARGE THEM. Especially if you have 2 or 3 in rotation.... Let them die completely.

Where have you been? 1990 is looking for you.
"Memory" = Ni-Cd batteries.

Please do some read up in the link I've posed.

Cheers