Thread: Battery charging voltage
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Frank Banul is offline Frank Banul
2009-07-27 , 17:33
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Well that explains a lot to me. I'm kind of annoyed that the wall charger is marked as 5V though since that is clearly not the case. But to their credit, the pdf is awesome, I wish other manufacturers provided this type of information.

Frank

Originally Posted by jthiemann View Post
If the input voltage is around 5V, the N800 will see it as a "special" charger and never actually fully charge the battery. AFAIK, LiPol batteries are not very efficient to charge the last 20%, so it's better to just keep it at that level unless you have plenty cheap power available (that is, a wall charger), and can afford to turn most of it into heat.