{"id":2452,"date":"2010-03-23T00:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2010-03-23T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:14:52","slug":"battery-charging-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/battery-charging-paranoia\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery Charging Paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/bicycle_video_recorder\/IMG_5181.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/90638-2\/IMG_5181.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"First charge of the Li-Poly battery pack, with the battery sitting in a slightly uncovered ammo can, temperature sensor on the battery, and current meter connected to the charger.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is my setup for the first charge of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithium-ion_polymer_battery\">Li-Poly battery<\/a> used in the a <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Bicycle_Video_Recorder\">Bicycle Video Recorder<\/a>. I had the battery sitting in a partially covered ammo can, my multimeter and thermocouple monitoring the battery&#8217;s temperature, and the charger connected to a Kill-A-Watt to show current flow. While charging occurred I&#8217;d periodically check in on this to be sure the temp isn&#8217;t way up, current draw isn&#8217;t unexpectedly high, or the battery hadn&#8217;t exploded. Not pictured is the fire extinguisher which was located ten feet away from this setup towards the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>As the green light on the charger shows, the battery is now charged, and everything sitting in place without a coating of extinguisher dust shows that nothing exploded. Now it&#8217;s time to grab an 8GB or 16GB SD card and do a runtime test. That sounds like a job for tomorrow, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my setup for the first charge of the Li-Poly battery used in the a Bicycle Video Recorder. I had the battery sitting in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/battery-charging-paranoia\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battery Charging Paranoia<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}