Quick Battery Question

aravance

aravance

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After you calibrate your battery, can you really charge it up whenever you want without it deteriorating? I know supposedly you can with these batteries, but I've always played it safe and waited until the battery was fully dead before I charged it up again. Is that necessary?

Thanks.
 
I assume by "calibrate" he means the process of charging and discharging a brand new battery to assure a full charge. I've never done that myself, and never felt the need to.

As to your question, yes you can recharge the battery whenever you want. LI-ION and NI-MH batteries don't have the "memory effect," so there is no adverse reaction to recharging them before being fully depleated.
 
Cam-Ra said:
I assume by "calibrate" he means the process of charging and discharging a brand new battery to assure a full charge.
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You are probably right, if he does not use one of the AB batteries with the built in fuel gauge, stepped down to 7.2V. They do need periodic recal to keep the gauge accurate...
 
I have no idea what "fuel gauge" means, but I have a 7,2 V Li-Ion battery which havent been used very much lately. Ive followed the guidelines about unmounting it of the camera for periods of inactivity, but never for such a long time that there was need for the "yearly discharge/full charge" method.
Now I would like to calibrate it and flex its muscles and Ive been told to fully drain the batt until the camera stops and then fully charge and repeat this 3-4 times.

My question is then: how do I make the camera operate for such a long time without monitoring it? It would have to be without tape because of the hour-meter function. I was told some cameras can record with the cassette holder open with no tape inside - does the DVX100A support this?
Or do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks
 
Thanks for letting me know. The article highly interesting in relation to lap tops as well. So I guess Ill go for the partial discharge pattern instead, which is actually what I have been doing before told otherwise.

Now, How do I know if my battery has fuel gauge? I have the original Panasonic Li-ion CGA-D54s 5400 mAh, and it says "series 6"

Anyone know this?
 
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