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- Airfried@piefed.socialEnglish1 hour
Also swap out your PSP batteries regardless because they will almost certainly bloat! Mine ruined my handheld because I didn’t notice it.
- 4 hours
Depends on how long you plan on ignoring them.
Gonna use it once a month? Yeah 40-60%s a good range to keep it in. More than a few months? Depending on the idle discharge, but probably want to charge it higher so it doesn’t go flat. 0% charge is a lot worse than 100%, especially for LiPo batteries.
- 3 hours
The exact level you charge it to matters less than what the battery ends up sitting at. Batteries are happiest at about 40%, but very rapid get unhappy the lower they go. The closer you can keep it to within the 40-60% the better.
3 hoursIf I’m not planning to use a device for a while, I generally do 79% as well.
Except for my Nintendo DSi XL and 2DS XL. The original DS seems to hold a charge eternally regardless of what it’s charged to, and the 2DS will literally be dead after a while if I don’t charge it to full. I’ve stored it at a 100% charge and picked it up a few months later to find it sitting at like 16%. Makes no sense.
- Nikls94@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Depends on the LiPo. I’ve had some go dead or puffy after being at 100% for 3 weeks, others survived 4 months at 95% in the woods (I fly FPV quadcopters)
- Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
My PSP battery got spicy after multiple years of inactivity. Not sure how to handle long term storage since it was charged when stored.
- 3 hours
Every 6 months to maybe a year. My very original one just lost charging, and I’m yet to try and jump start it using a 9V just to see if it might res, so i got a replacement in the meantime.
I have so many handheld gaming devices and now tamagotchi with built in lipos. I can see them going bad in the next year or so. Somebody needs to make a multi plug system that you can leave a dozen or so plugged into just to tend the built in batteries.
- Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
A multi-plug charging system would be great. It could be a strip of power outlets maybe? Call it “Strip-of-Power” or “power strip” even.
Heh. I do have a power strip attached to my shelf of handhelds. That isn’t the problem. If I just plug them all in all the time, they will charge to full and stay there. It isn’t great for their battery life. I need something that detects their charge and only stays on long enough to charge them to half full, then shuts off, and I need that for a dozen devices.
- 4 hours
Sadly only really works with lead acid and nimh. Lipo rig to keep track of %s, letting them drain enough and only then top them off slowly - way too convoluted.
I’d make an organizer of sorts and put dated labels on things and just check bi-annually.
Unfortunately I have probably a grand worth of RC airplane and Quadcopter lipos that are waiting to explode next time I charge them, since I haven’t flown in the last two years. I wish something better would show up that isn’t as delicate. I’m rooting for high density capacitors.
You are right. Organization and keeping a system going is the only way to move forward. Also, probably throwing all of those lipos away and starting over so that I don’t burn my house down. (I use flame proof bags when charging and keep them in pretty thick ammo cans, so hopfully they won’t burn down my house, but still.)
- 3 hours
At least there are fancy dumb lipo chargers that you can hook up several batteries of same stats to and charge em in batches.
I have some of those for my tiny whoops and other 1 or 2 cell quads to charge a batch of them with my fancy charger. Still, I have to calculate the charge rate for the batch.
