Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoNew nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cyclesinterestingengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1296arrow-down16
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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·5 hours agoUPS batteries need to be fully charged all the time. Lead acid batteries like to be fully charged. Lithium batteries need to be stored around 50% charge to have a long lifetime.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 hours agoLead batteries are also cheap. And mine take ~30 minutes to charge. This person may want to replace their batteries.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoCharge time depends on the UPS. The cheap consumer grade ones usually have a float charger that takes forever.
minus-squarestupidcasey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoIt’s brand new, I’m reading directly from the instructions, if it only takes 30min to change they should say that and it’s not by design.
UPS batteries need to be fully charged all the time. Lead acid batteries like to be fully charged. Lithium batteries need to be stored around 50% charge to have a long lifetime.
Lead batteries are also cheap.
And mine take ~30 minutes to charge. This person may want to replace their batteries.
Charge time depends on the UPS. The cheap consumer grade ones usually have a float charger that takes forever.
It’s brand new, I’m reading directly from the instructions, if it only takes 30min to change they should say that and it’s not by design.