Extending Battery Life
Extending Battery Life
The life and capacity of a Lithium Ion battery pack can vary significantly depending on the discharge current and the
environment in which it is used. Li-Ion battery packs do not need to be fully discharged between charge cycles.
Regardless of the type of battery being used, LXE offers the following suggestions for extending battery life:
l Immediately replace batteries in LXE devices with the appropriate, fully charged battery when LXE equipment battery
warnings are issued, heard or displayed.
l Fully charge a new battery before using.
l Remove batteries from unused units or units that will be unused longer than a day.
l Place discharged batteries in battery chargers as soon as possible.
l Store batteries in locations that maintain an ambient temperature of approximately 25°C (77°F).
l Recycle defective, shorted or end-of-life batteries.
l Any Lithium-Ion battery that is over a year old is considered an old battery.
l Replace all batteries more than a year old with new batteries.
How To Determine Age of the Battery
1. Year the battery was shipped from LXE. If the number is less than the current year (assumed to be 2010 for the pur-
poses of this example) the assumption is the year is 200x. If the number is equal to or greater than the current year, the
assumption is the year is 201x.
2. The month the battery was shipped from LXE.
To determine the age of the battery, check the LXE ship date on one side of the battery. The ship date is indelibly marked and
shows the year and the month that the battery was shipped. The first field (labeled 1-0) is the year the battery was shipped. The
second field (labeled J, F, M, A, etc.) is the month. So if the 8 and the F are punched out, the battery was shipped in February of
2008.
To determine the actual shipping date, use the serial number on the battery label to determine the ship date. Contact your LXE
representative for assistance.
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