lithium question
Can you charge lithium batteries with a regular charger or do I need to buy a special charger?
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StirCrazy wrote:S Davis wrote:
EVE LifeP04 cells are 10% to 90% for 3500 cycles, they should still have 80% capacity at that point. If so these should outlast me.
I think your missreading that a bit.. the industry standard is that the cycles they list are based off a 100% usage. they recomend 10-90% use range and that will extend your cycle life possibly up to 5000-7000 cycles, before you reach that 80% threshhold. then that 80% could be maintained for another 10 years or longer, if you treat them good.
Steve
Yes you are correct, that is their recommendation for max cycles. Pulled this from the spec sheet, they consider a cycle from fully charged to 2.5 volt cut off.
A fte r sta nda rd char ged and 30 mins res t, discharge to 2.5V cutoff with the current of 1.0C(A) at (25±2) °C, and then start the next cycle, end with the capacity decrease to 80%
of the initial capacity. The number of cycles is defined as the cycle life of the battery.
