How to spend the winter in your cells and batteries?

Batteries

Even if most of the batteries are without maintains, can take care! Especially in the winter...

Heat makes the most effective battery, but also promotes the discharge and may cause irreversible capacity loss. There is therefore an environment at too high temperatures.

Conversely, the cold does not facilitate start-ups in winter, because the battery is as frozen. On the other hand, it "preserves it" capabilities. A battery charged battery keeps its capacity if it is stored in the cold (at about 2 to 4 ° C) which suits us well in winter, but only for storage...

Cold is no friend of the battery for storage but not for its use. It can load it just before use to reheat and wake her, and for not what spreads quickly in a lethargy, keep it in a secluded area of the cold. However do not load it under a temperature below-5 ° C under penalty of irreversible damage.

The battery of camera for example, it will be better to keep them in an internal pocket of the coat near the body.

For bicycle batteries keep if possible the battery indoors between trips, rather than leave it out on the bike. Some manufacturers of VAE offer optional neoprene sheath to protect and keep the battery warm.

Return to normal temperature should, in principle, find the same autonomy if the design of the battery is good.

For motorcycle batteries in the lead, the only way to keep them healthy is wintering off circuit. A motorcycle staying out in the snow a great chance not start.

The alternative of the starting lithium battery for a motorcycle remaining outside becomes unavoidable. This type of battery type LFP7 can operate up to-30 ° C

For IPhones, Apple gives an optimal range between 0 ° C and 35 ° C. It is easily attainable at the two extremes, we must therefore be vigilant. If you use your device in a very cold environment, you may notice a decrease in the battery, but this situation is temporary. Once the temperature of the battery is again in its normal operating range, its performance return they also to normal without causing damage.

The iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch and iPod work optimally in a range of temperatures between 0 and 35 ° C. Storage temperature:-20 ° C to 45 ° C.

The batteries

For alkaline batteries, the operating range is substantially equivalent to the batteries (-10 ° C to + 50 ° C), but the extremes do not imagine having performance equivalent to a temperature of 20 ° C. Yet the 1.5V lithium batteries can make you this service passing the bar - 10 ° C to-40 ° C with good performance.

For example Lithium batteries allow a stay on almost 10 times longer than the same GPS equipped with alkaline batteries of the same brand. Thus by-10 ° C, the lifetime of the lithium battery was 40% higher than the service life of the alkaline battery at temperature of 25 ° C.