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Batteries in a Portable World: A Handbook on Rechargeable Batteries for Non-Engineers
There is so, so much more to a battery than the voltage it puts out. You have no idea.
Buy this book and read it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0968211836
Also check out www.batteryuniversity.com.
LifePo - longer run life at the cost of not having quite the power/weight ratio. LiPos have about 500 charges, Lifepo 2000.
Massive detail on both, free if you have Amazon prime http://www.amazon.com/Batteries-Portable-World-Rechargeable-Non-Engineers/dp/0968211836/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332805202&sr=1-8
Well, in part my experience with conditioning some and not conditioning others. I also read this book about rechargeable batteries, which had some discussion of it. It's been a while, so I'll need to go back through and get some of the sections which address conditioning cycles, but I feel like the gist of it was that while they were needed for NiCd, NiMH aren't really susceptible to the same memory effect, and so conditioning is less required. One thing it did suggest was that conditioning could sort of "reset" the voltage discharge curve of the cell, which is good for battery meter reporting on the device, but not so critical for the actual use. Not to get all tin-foil-hat-ish, but it could be argued that Powerex has an incentive to suggest more conditioning cycles than necessary, as extra conditioning cycles eventually wear out the batteries sooner. Or they could just suggest that routine because it's easy, or because it's what they used to suggest for NiCd and haven't bothered changing, or what.
Or I could be wrong. I'm not an engineer.
Page 122 of that book is on preview at amazon. (3rd edition, april, 2011)
https://www.amazon.com/Batteries-Portable-World-Rechargeable-Non-Engineers/dp/0968211836#reader_0968211836
The page talks to lithium ion charging.
Did you make a mistake or should I supplant the lithium ion info for lipo?
he says that lithium ion batteries should be charged at .5c - is this your point?
so, what other parts of 6 year old information about lithium ion batteries should we all use for charging today's lipos?