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> due the age of the battery in the controller, it has the potential to overheat when left charging for extended periods of time ...uh, what? I assume I'm miss
by ohazi 9y ago
> due the age of the battery in the controller, it has the potential to overheat when left charging for extended periods of time
...uh, what? I assume I'm missing something here, because this doesn't make any sense. Can someone explain?
- jacobush 9y agoIt's pretty common. It never "finishes" charging, instead however many watts of the charger gets dumped as heat, indefinitely.
- ohazi 9y agoBut this is why lithium ion batteries need special lithium ion charging circuitry in the first place... If you don't have this, the cells will happily take as much energy as you give them and then promptly catch fire. It doesn't make sense to me that this would only now be a problem. Either the circuit was designed correctly, and this excuse is bullshit, or they should have issued a recall ten years ago.
- upofadown 9y agoYou are probably thinking of NiCad and to some extent NiMH simple constant current chargers. If you do that with a lithium battery you will have problems pretty much right away, possibly involving fire.