Lipo's First Charge

[DaveG28]

First time charging new lip's should you charge to 100% capacity or is it ok to stick them on just for a minute or two? Eg does it affect max capacity to not fully charge first time like on some other battery types?

Have new lipo's that I want to check work, but haven't a use for them for a fortnight so don't want to do a full charge!

[sosidge]

Why not give them a full charge and then put them in store mode?

I have never heard of LiPo having a memory effect, equally I don't think that a partial charge is a useful way of testing a battery either.

[bodgit]

Just out of interest as I,ve never had a brand new set of lipo,s what is the voltage that they are sold with. Just wondered if they are sold in storage mode, what voltage is in them before you charge at home.

[DaveG28]

Originally Posted by sosidge

Why not give them a full charge and then put them in store mode?

I have never heard of LiPo having a memory effect, equally I don't think that a partial charge is a useful way of testing a battery either.

So charge and discharge?

[gnr racer]

Originally Posted by bodgit

Just out of interest as I,ve never had a brand new set of lipo,s what is the voltage that they are sold with. Just wondered if they are sold in storage mode, what voltage is in them before you charge at home.

Ive bought 4 different lipo's and they have all come with around 3.8v per cell, so basically storage voltage