LiPo Battery Care

Care Techniques conventional lithium polymer battery

Lithium polymer battery is a favorite of ours. Some very light weight and high power density available.

A battery capable of producing 6 Amps for one hour!

We kiss the battery, car battery, because it's a big call. Not physically (there are 110 grams!), But because this 6AH Lipo 6 Amps outputting power for more than an hour in! This is our low-power embedded in a very large amount of power in the world. Please do not confuse this with a real car battery!

Please do sometimes, but with a special charger Lipo Lipo charge!

SparkFun us to take a two-cell charger Lipo offers. Our quality and our fast chargers old MAX1555 IC is based on the relatively new MCP73831 charger IC is based on. MAX1555 great but its limited current (300mA) charging market and reducing the availability of our MCP73831 (hourly charging rate of 500mA) based on the side of the charger were pushing.

LiPoly 6000mAh USB charger attached to a brick Here you can see properly. But you can not cut off the charger to the battery? Have you ever tried to pull a JST connector socket and a JST If you find it incredibly difficult. This is because, deep inside JST connectors in electronics, where the lifetime of a battery or a component may need to be changed only once or twice is designed to be used. A very strong, strong connections were more important than the removal process. Specifically, we use the JST connectors because they are so big and so compact holding! So you have to separate the battery from the charger or your embedded device?

Note: The doll will be drawn on the cross! You need to get a mechanical advantage. Instead of cutting the thin wire that connects the mouth to allow you to grip the wire. Be careful not to cut the wire. Do not go cutting squeezing her hard. They grip the edge connector. Needle nose pliers can work, but you really need to get behind the connector flange.

LiPo Battery Care

As a resort at the edge of the PCB and connector out of the lever, gently sideways pulling. JST connector and remove the friction points after pressing a few points that you will be able to remove the connector by hand will wear down a little.

Power Cables reinstated

The Lipo battery power connection is not broken them down to one of the parties. The smaller, more fragile a hardened portable device like an iPod connectors you're embedding the battery to learn. But with a few projects LiPos later, I saw that my day-to-day use of the battery built into the power cable terminal on the safety circuit will break. Luckily for us, a little goes a long way electrical tape!

Lipo wear out on a red and black wire and cut very close to the battery if you will tend to swing. This is so easy to fix, but I have seen a lot of people can not realize what a little stress relief. Fold the red and black wire on your Lipo battery. With electrical tape, batteries and tape over the top of middle.

Use a little bit of tension on the tape as you go over the top of the battery.

The secret is a simple one or two of battery almost serve as stress relief. All the mechanical stress is transferred to the terminal tape welded inside the top of the battery. Now that you use (or incorrect use) batteries, battery breaking above the red and black wires will not have to worry about!

LiPo Battery Care

I found a wonderful collection of LiPos for different projects I was (they just seem to be replicated at this point!). A problem that came up a few months ago was the battery identification. I have to do with the battery? I was in pain with it? Perfect for a sharpie marker to identify your battery. For example, "heater" or "costume" as the name makes a world of difference. You will know when you first used it on the battery. My lips are still a walk, but a few years later, I guess the battery will begin to lose some of their power. A date code of a cell that helps to indicate the general health.

Remember, a safety circuit that we sell are manufactured in the pack. Over-voltage protection circuit (over-charging) will prevent over current (if the battery will shut down your system in a short form), and the under voltage (low battery runs down, it will stop). The safety circuit of the battery to prevent the abuse and misuse, we definitely have some battery. You can be assured that the safety circuit and the battery will save you.