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Impres battery "intitialization"

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ddiesel2006

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Do Impres batteries need any special initialization? I've got a couple (should be new) impres batteries; when I went to charge the first one, it only charged for about 20 minutes before the light went solid green, but it only lasted about 10 minutes in the radio (just monitoring). The when I view the battery information in the radio, it shows an int date and 1 est. charge, but no % capacity.

Any ideas? Can these batteries lose their chemistry over time, even if they've never been used? They were mfd' in 2003, I believe.
 

Mr_Observer

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one thing to note is that if you attempt to charge a lithium Ion Battery in a non- tri-chem charger it will kill the battery. Also if you have an impress charger and an impress battery you can force a recondition cycle by removing the battery and replacing it within 2 seconds. the light will change from red to yellow indicating a recondition cycle is in progress then just let it go for a while (sometimes several hours) until it turns green.
 

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Batteries that were made in 03 are pretty old in battery years especially if they were sat unused for a while.

I wouldn't be expecting much from them even if I could get them to recondition.
 

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af5rn said:
At the risk of asking an obvious question, are you utilising an Impres charger/conditioner, or a standard charger?

Impres charger; not an obvious question, my bad for not saying that originally.

Mr_Observer said:
one thing to note is that if you attempt to charge a lithium Ion Battery in a non- tri-chem charger it will kill the battery. Also if you have an impress charger and an impress battery you can force a recondition cycle by removing the battery and replacing it within 2 seconds. the light will change from red to yellow indicating a recondition cycle is in progress then just let it go for a while (sometimes several hours) until it turns green.

Is there such thing as a non-trichem Impres charger? The whole Impres thing is somewhat foreign to me; I've been toying with electronics and radios since I was 10, but I haven't ever used this intellegent battery stuff before.
 

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FWIW, I just had the same thing with some new Kenwood Li-ion batts, Kenwood said to charge em for 12 hours even tho it turned green after 2 hours.
They have been cycled several times now and last for about 12 hrs with occasional transmitting.
 

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All impress chargers are tri-chem. No worries about ruining a battery. Infact since the XTS series was introduced almost all new Motos come with a tri-chem charger.
 

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Problem solved....

1st charge- Charged till green, discharged in radio (pretty quickly), 2nd charge- charged till green, removed, re-inserted, let sit and recondition, discharged in radio (took 12+ hrs, recieve only, 3rd charge- charged till green, lasted even longer with moderate transmitting.

Awesome! Thanks guys.
 
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