Balancing the Battery

A little trivia about Battery Balancing that you might want to know:

What is Battery Balancing?
For normal charging, the charger must be removed as soon as the light turns green, indicating that the battery is fully charged. Overcharging can result in loss of battery capacity. 
However, sometimes the battery needs to be balanced by a process of occasionally charging beyond the normal time. This is called “balancing the battery”. The process is discussed below.

Why should you balance your battery? Battery balancing should be done during a period of long-term battery storage or if you are experiencing a noticeable reduction in range.

Battery Balancing is simple and easy:
NOTE: Do not perform battery balancing more than once per month.
To balance your battery, simply charge it for as close to 12 hours as possible, but not longer than 12 hours. The charger indicator light may change to green to show that the battery is full, but keep the battery plugged in and charging for as close to 12 hours as possible. Once the 12 hours are up, unplug.

That’s it!

For geeks:

That’s all you need to know, but you may be interested in understanding the reason for balancing. Your battery has a management system that works to ensure that each cell in the battery pack gets charged at an equal rate. However, there will be small discrepancies in charges that increase over time. Some cells will fill up faster while others lag. Eventually, a few cells may get quite low. Since a battery is only as powerful as its weakest cell, those low cells are killing your range. Balancing the battery, that is, charging beyond the normal time, let’s the charge spill over from the full cells to completely fill up low voltage cells, renewing your battery’s range. As mentioned before, this process should only be done once a month at most because frequent overcharging reduces battery range.

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