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I've had my canister light now for more than a year. I'd like to do a burn test but I understand that running a lithium battery to zero can damage it. What's the best way to do this?
How to test burn time on a lithium battery without damaging it?
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The battery has protection circuitry in it for deep discharge, low voltage, high current, etc. so it will shut down if it is near completely discharged. However, you need to know if it will automatically reset when charged or if there is some procedure required to wake it up again. Obviously, you want to know this before a burn test.
Every time you charge a lithium battery to "full" or discharge it, you're shortening the life a smidge.
You should still burn test your batteries once a year.
You should still burn test your batteries once a year.
Get a Western Mountain Radio CBA IV Computerized Battery Analyzer. They work great and you can set the cutoff so that you do not harm you batteries. I have been using one for 30 years. I have upgraded a couple of times. It will give you a very good indication of what your batteries can do.
(not a cave diver, just a computer nerd that found the thread in 'new') If we're being pedantic: lithium ion batteries have a shelf-life even if they are never used. Usually that shelf-life is about a 3-5 year timeframes before we cross that 80% of engineered capacity threshold. Obviously discharge cycles accelerate that.
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Just to be clear this means just sitting on a shelf for 3-5 years Lithium Ion Batteries will be at 80% capacity max?
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