Li-ion bat help

[kris142]

My new camera is comming with a lithium ion battery nd I was curious how to maintain it.


Should I charge it only after its almost completely empty. Can i charge it when there is still a lot of life.

I coMe upon these questions because my moms went shot after leaving it on a charger for too long(LAPTOP)

[brian.austin]

Batteries need to be exercised. All batteries have "memory" but Li-ion and NiMh are pretty resistant to the memory issues that plagued NiCAD batteries.

Charge it when you need to but don't leave it on the charger for days at a time. Most chargers will go into a "trickle" charge mode after it's charged but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Regarding your mother's laptop: different story. Your camera battery can't be charging and used at the same time so you'll get the charge/discharge/recharge cycle going quite a bit. The laptop probably wasn't discharged at all but remained hooked up to a charger for a very long period of time.

I've found that running a laptop down to shutdown once a month will keep the battery in good working order for years. I have a five year old laptop that still gives me 2 hours after the original 2.5 hours it did when it was brand new. If you do this, change your laptop's power management to 2-3% before it starts shutting down automatically for best results.

[rshunk]

You may also want to consider picking up a 2nd battery as a back-up. This way you can be charging one while still shooting with the other.


Bob S.

[kris142]

Yup we ordered one with the camera.