Thunder 75P-T6-Multi-Charger, Manual

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arbitrarily.
You have to pay attention to verify the capacity and the
voltage of the Lithium battery pack. It may be composed
of parallel and series connection mixed. In parallel link
the capacity of the battery pack is multiplied by the
number of cells but the voltage remains same. That kind
of voltage imbalance causes a fire or explosion during
charge process. We recommend you compose the
Lithium battery pack in series only.
Discharging
The typical purpose of discharge is to determine the
residual capacity of the battery, or to lower the voltage
of battery to a defined level. When you discharge the
battery you also have to pay attention to the process
same as charging. To avoid the battery becoming deep-
discharged, set the final discharge voltage correctly.
Lithium batteries should not be deep-discharged to lower
than the minimum voltage, as this leads to a rapid loss of
capacity or a total failure. Generally, you do not need to
discharge Lithium battery voluntarily.
Some rechargeable batteries are said to have a
memory effect. If they are partly used and recharged
before the whole charge is drawn out, they “remember”
this and next time will only use that part of their capacity.
This is a “member effect”. NiCd and NiMH batteries are
said to suffer from memory effect. They prefer complete
cycles; fully charge then use until empty, do not recharge
before storage—allow them to self-discharge during
storage. NiMH batteries have less memory effect than
NiCd.
The Lithium battery prefers a partial rather than a full