Crafting Custom Lipos for Your Unique Needs

[Nick Middleton]

There's no denying that LiPo batteries are safer and more environmentally friendly compared to other R/C batteries like NiCd and NiMH. LiPo batteries have become the most common high-performance R/C battery and are widely relied upon in R/C cars, boats, planes, and helis, to name a few.

However, whenever charged, discharged, stored, maintained, or handled improperly, a LiPo battery can become extremely dangerous. No wonder you should take it upon yourself to do your homework before visiting a battery factory. Having said that, this blog post takes you through some of the things that go into safe LiPo battery ownership and use.

Depending on how you use your e-health care battery, most LiPo batteries typically don't last longer than 3000 charges cycles. Regardless, how you treat your custom LiPos can have an impact on whether they last longer or shorter than the average. Leaving them around on a full or depleted charge constantly, running them completely dead, or exposing them to high temperatures will shorten this lifespan dramatically. That is the last thing you need to make do with after investing in a curved battery.

All cells in a LiPo battery should keep up with the same voltage across all cells consistently. If the voltage across the cells deviates too much from each other, the thin battery can become unstable and dangerous. Of course, this is unless it is a single cell LiPo, in which case you don't have to worry about the cell balance. To make it easy to charge or discharge your wearable battery to the perfect level, be sure to use a balance charge/discharge, which you can find for under $50. You need to ensure that the one you purchase is compatible with your own set of batteries.

You should continuously keep a Class D fire extinguisher nearby your medical battery charging/discharging and storage area. The battery charging/discharging and storage area should be free from any materials which can catch fire such as wood tables, carpet, or gasoline containers. Keep in mind the ideal surface for charging and putting away LiPo batteries is concrete or ceramic. The above are merely some of the things you should keep in mind the next time you choose to use a lithium polymer battery. For more information, click this page.