gave myself a scare, because batteries 6 years old shouldn't still be good to use,. Or can they?
Well, a few months shy of 6 years, anyhoo.
This particular set of batteries includes 3 nanotech batteries who's first three years of life was beset by never, ever staying in balance. Funni enuff was the fact that this was random as to which of the 9 cells would go out of balance because it differed with each charge cycle.
They are the reason I built a singe cell charge rig for multicell packs.
Eventually I just would charge the whole set of nanotechs to 90% of the strongest cell,but then, three years later they never went out of balance to this day.
But back to the scare...
I traveled down to the harbor/beach area and back. A trip that usually uses around 25W from this pack (total pack capacity is about 400W) but on this trip I used 95W!
Thinking the batteries may have started their end of days I recharged the pack, intending to steel myself into dealing with HK and the offensive paypal system, whose motto seems to be "lie, we must" on the morrow.
But before I did that ornery task I made another trip to the harbor, as it was another glorious day in the 70s(F).
Upon returning I glanced at the pack and noticed it used 30W (it was a very windy day).
AhA, I must have forgot about other trips using this pack! Silly meme.
But it is noted that this pack, like all the packs I've put together since, has had charge/discharge cycles of less than 50%. Starting at 90-95% and discharging (usually) to just under 80% has extended the life of these packs well past other users' experiences with the same HK stuff.
Go figure...
At least I definitely got my moneys worth so far.
Pictures of the recent moon you're thinking?
Of Course! ..or at least til I couldn't stand to suffer the 5C cold any longer (yes I'm acclimatized to this area finally)