From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Strategies for lengthening battery life
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
Strategies for lengthening battery life
Rich Harrington: When it comes to getting the most out of batteries, there is a couple important strategies. Let's start with the initial charge. Robbie Carman: Yeah. Rich: You buy a new battery and a lot of people are like I'll just plug it in and use it. What do you do? Robbie: Not a good idea. Most of the batteries these days need to be conditioned in one shape or another. What I typically do is I'll plug the battery in, let it get to full charge but then immediately take it out of the charger and run it in that camera or whatever device it is. And the important thing is to let it run all the way out until it dies. A lot of these batteries are sort of going to limit, sort of their overall life span and capacity by continually charging them when they're say 90% full, or you know, 100% full or keeping the battery on the actual charger itself. It's a good idea in any battery, and I usually try to do this once a month, once every other month is get it to full capacity and let it drain…
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