Im curious to know if you guys or gals rotate between fast and or slow charging?
How do you choose to store batteries, full, empty or somewhere in between?
Do you have your chargers on the wall, or do you set them on a counter or workspace?
How many batteries or chargers have you lost over time?
To answer these questions myself
I use a slow charger 90% of the time only using faster versions when necessary which isn't often as I have close to 25 batteries.
The difference on my end is the slow charge is about .5C and the fast about 1C.
I didn't always do this, but as I collected a variety of chargers, and these went from cute little appendages to fairly healthy expenses I started caring more about how I treated them over the years. It may not buy me much, but Im sure it buys me something.
I also pull them off the charger at 80% if I catch it. This seems better for long term storage, as I might take weeks to get to it after charging, and shallower cycling all round as I try to pull them off the tool just as they get to one bar. When I need the performance I just bust out the fast ones and let the thing rip, but see no need to use that higher rate daily.
I wish I had wall space to put mine on, as they take up room on my counter and the unused ones clog up my storage space.
Part of my space strategy is that I only need one "slow" unit on the counter, and can minimize footprint. (thats a 40Volt charger with an 18 volt adaptor)
I (knock on wood) havent lost any Li/ons yet and have some closing in on a decade.
Never lost a charger, I did lose two nickel metal stick types over 20 years on my old setup.
How do you choose to store batteries, full, empty or somewhere in between?
Do you have your chargers on the wall, or do you set them on a counter or workspace?
How many batteries or chargers have you lost over time?
To answer these questions myself
I use a slow charger 90% of the time only using faster versions when necessary which isn't often as I have close to 25 batteries.
The difference on my end is the slow charge is about .5C and the fast about 1C.
I didn't always do this, but as I collected a variety of chargers, and these went from cute little appendages to fairly healthy expenses I started caring more about how I treated them over the years. It may not buy me much, but Im sure it buys me something.
I also pull them off the charger at 80% if I catch it. This seems better for long term storage, as I might take weeks to get to it after charging, and shallower cycling all round as I try to pull them off the tool just as they get to one bar. When I need the performance I just bust out the fast ones and let the thing rip, but see no need to use that higher rate daily.
I wish I had wall space to put mine on, as they take up room on my counter and the unused ones clog up my storage space.
Part of my space strategy is that I only need one "slow" unit on the counter, and can minimize footprint. (thats a 40Volt charger with an 18 volt adaptor)
I (knock on wood) havent lost any Li/ons yet and have some closing in on a decade.
Never lost a charger, I did lose two nickel metal stick types over 20 years on my old setup.
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), all of my battery powered hand tools (9) are Makita 18Vs LXTs or XGTs. I have 11 genuine Makita batteries in my arsenal, ranging from 2aH to 5aH. They get rotated often and never go below one bar on the battery's side gauge. Having this many, I run them until they get down to the one bar and swapped out with a fresh one until either I finish, or that battery needs a charge and pop in a fresh one again.
