Nowadays, our daily life is filled with all kinds of batteries, such as those in mobile devices and rechargeable electronics. From the perspective of long-term usage, it’s important to know how to use the batteries correctly and extend their lifespan.
In Nigeria, we need rechargeable products to make our daily life more comfortable to live with due to constant blackouts. And with those electronics being used daily, we need to find a way to keep the battery functional for long-term usage purposes.
In this article, I do not intend to talk about the alkaline or the NiMH batteries and how you should appropriately use them; instead, I want to briefly instruct the BEHAVIORS that can effectively extend the lifespan of a battery and also save your money on those rechargeable electronics.
- Charging Properly with the Indicators: Don’t Fully Discharge or Over-charge.
When a battery is out of power or overcharged, it could damage the cell in it and then gradually decrease the capacity until it can not be charged again. When next time you charge it, the size of it will be getting smaller than it used to be.
However, for fear from profoundly discharging the battery doesn’t mean you can make it charged 24/7, the battery will overheat. The reason is that the battery is still carrying the current when the battery is in charging after fully charged.
For a home-based electronic, it usually has no microcomputers to monitor the status when it is charging like a smartphone protecting the battery by controlling the current going or stopping when it’s full. Therefore, it’s very important to choose a rechargeable product with the charing indicators or the built-in charging protection mechanism.
Or, if you can not tell how much power left with no indicators, you can still identify when to charge the devices with the performance of the products. “Taking rechargeable fans for example, if there were no indicators built-in, you should start charging the device when you find out that the rechargeable fans are running slower than it used to do. Do not charge it when it’s fully stopping spinning”, the QASA mechanic, said.
- Good Habit: Constantly Discharge and Charge
To make the battery work properly, you must act with the appropriate behaviors. One of the acts is to discharge and charge the battery within a particular level regularly, You can grow a behavior of charging the battery when it’s approximately 20% – 25% of power left and of stopping charging when it’s full. By doing so, you can surely have the battery work functionally and last longer. Also, one of the QASA mechanics, added, “Even a device has not been used for 1 to 2 months, you still need to charge at least once within that period.”
*I will strongly suggest you fully charge the batteries every single time due to the “Memory Effect” that could reduce the capacity of some types of batteries in time if they’re not fully charged before being used.
- Attach to the electric stabilizers
Unstable power supply and constant blackouts are the daily fares we’ve been dealing with every day, then protecting the devices is an important thing to do for the sake of our money and time on the electronics and repair. Stabilizers have played a significant role in protecting our electronics from the unstable power supply and blackouts.
Therefore, having stabilizers for your electronics could save more of your money and time and also extend the lifespan of each electronic.
- Avoid High Temperature or Flame
To get the electronics away from the high temperature and flame is a common sense of using them. The reason is that temperature is one of the factors that will affect the chemicals inside the battery or any electric piece set in devices and which could also cause the malfunctions.
- Find the Original Manufacturers
In spite of properly using a device, you could meet some abnormal operating situation, and you might want to fix it yourself or find a repairer you trust to fix it. From the perspective of protecting the right of customers, I would suggest you find the dealers you bought the products from, and they will contact the original manufacturer to repair your devices. If it’s under warranty, you could save some money on that. Instead, once you or the unauthorized repairman fail to repair, you will lose your money, and also the warranty will be canceled.
To take good care of your device is a legitimate action that can save your money and time on every home appliance and electronics. And thus, now it’s the time to start checking on every one of your home appliances and electronics and growing the good behaviors for lasting their lifespan.
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