This has probably been asked a million times, but why do instructions say to charge a Kgo battery for 8 hours even if the light is green? Why would over-charging NOT be an issue with these? ...weird
Why do they say to charge a Kgo battery so long?
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That's just for the first charge. Something to do with it being a lithium ion battery. After that you can use it whenever it turns green. It is supposed to improve the time between charges. I have no idea why 
Ya, when I first charged mine, it turned green in about 10 minutes but I dont understand why it should have to keep charging so long after that.
My Sony laptop was the only battery device I got that had instructions that matched battery type. I don't know what brand my sister's laptop is but it had instructions suitable for Nicad.
2 electric shavers, Lion and NiMh both had the same charging instructions for Nicad. And then there's the e-cigs.
Odds are the Li-ion charger is doing nothing once it turns green, if it does something you'll see it cycle to red just like you may see it cycle to green while it's charging.
A trickle would be bad and I don't think a new Li-ion should be losing enough charge to kick the charger on in 8 hours.
I wouldn't worry about overcharging. Hopefully the people who design the chargers actually know about batteries, they just make too much money to write the manuals
2 electric shavers, Lion and NiMh both had the same charging instructions for Nicad. And then there's the e-cigs.
Odds are the Li-ion charger is doing nothing once it turns green, if it does something you'll see it cycle to red just like you may see it cycle to green while it's charging.
A trickle would be bad and I don't think a new Li-ion should be losing enough charge to kick the charger on in 8 hours.
I wouldn't worry about overcharging. Hopefully the people who design the chargers actually know about batteries, they just make too much money to write the manuals
Those are instructions left over from the Nickle-Calcium/Nickle-Hydride days when the charger would rapid charge until the battery was about 95% full then switch to trickle charge for the last 5%.
Those instructions do not apply to Lithium based batteries in use today.
Once Lithium based batteries are fully charged the charger turns off. There's no need to leave them on the charger any longer.
Those instructions do not apply to Lithium based batteries in use today.
Once Lithium based batteries are fully charged the charger turns off. There's no need to leave them on the charger any longer.
Myk & Spider are right about li-ion batteries. Enclosed kgo Instructions are wrong. Good info can be found on ECF under "battery Issues" sticky. Check it out. It helped me with my kgo questions.
My Sony laptop was the only battery device I got that had instructions that matched battery type. I don't know what brand my sister's laptop is but it had instructions suitable for Nicad.
2 electric shavers, Lion and NiMh both had the same charging instructions for Nicad. And then there's the e-cigs.
Odds are the Li-ion charger is doing nothing once it turns green, if it does something you'll see it cycle to red just like you may see it cycle to green while it's charging.
A trickle would be bad and I don't think a new Li-ion should be losing enough charge to kick the charger on in 8 hours.
I wouldn't worry about overcharging. Hopefully the people who design the chargers actually know about batteries, they just make too much money to write the manuals
Bottom line:
When it's green it's done.
I'll go as far as to say that those instructions are idiotic, and the manufacturers really ought to learn about that which powers their own products. It seems that many of them give these instructions, just carried on from older battery technology, with which it was also controversial.
These batteries do not benefit from this sort of 'first charge', and it's potentially dangerous. You did well to question it.
These batteries do not benefit from this sort of 'first charge', and it's potentially dangerous. You did well to question it.
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