Rooster said:
Jon Radder said:
Michael Glavin said:
I’m surprised to not see more enthusiast reports on battery run times!
Extracting full rated capacity out of Li-Ion batteries is not recommended by their OEM’s! If you can realize 70% capacity at the discharge levels atypical of model trains while not dipping below 3.0V its all good.
Michael
Hi Michael,
Could be that a lot of us that run battery - R/C are operations based not roundy round? I charge my locos about once a month if they need it or not! My demand on the batteries is pretty light so I rarely need to charge a battery in the middle of a session.
Calling all Roundy Round runners to please report your battery usage !
Good point Jon …(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
A Bachmann 3 truck shay and a Bachmann ‘Connie’ (both LiPo 14.8V) run on roundy-roundy intermittently over a 12 month period, batteries charged only once. That was last week because I had visitors who wanted to see the trains run so I did a “just in case” charge. The batteries had been stored for over 12 months at the storage charge level while I built the new layout.
NiMh (12V) locos run more frequently, charged every 4-5 weeks with 1 needing a charge after 3 trips around the layout (new batteries have been delivered and waiting to be fitted).
I talk to model aircraft people on a regular basis and there is no way I flog mt batteries any where near the way they do.
I tend not to over analyse my battery usage and just look to loco performance (usually the sound quality starts to diminish) to determine if a charge is needed.
