PSA: If It is too cold for you, It is to cold for them. Bring your electros inside.

[jokers]

[jokers]

Just a friendly reminder if you have any electronic markers it is getting time to remove your batteries and protect the marker for next year, While you are at it remove the batteries from your hopper chronograph, and anything else that runs off batteries so that they are good next year.

[jokers]

Picture stolen from Super Nova 's sale thread.

[Daltech]

Or switch to lithium batteries. I use exclusively lithium batteries in all my work gear. I consider alkaline batteries one time use only. As in, I use them, then immediately remove them and dispose of them.

[jokers]

Well they are less likely to blow up but how do lithium batteries hold up to the cold? I remember the Tesla truck had some major battery loss because of Lithium and cold partly because they had to heat them to keep them ready. That might just be them being rechargeable or those batteries.

[Daltech]

I’m tired and cranky, long shifts on a show right now.

I’m not communicating properly.

The internet says lithium is good down to -20•F. Hmm, I’ll look for more info on Tesla trucks and cold weather charging issues for further education on the subject. Interesting.

I support Jokers PSA.

Remove your batteries for winter or long periods of non use! 🥶

[jokers]

Did a little more searching to find the article I read as well as provide proof. I found that the issue is not the lithium but rather the whole pack needs to be warmed to maintain peak efficiency. That is the TL: DR but there is a lot of information and it goes quite in depth into how, why and what is causing it.

https://insideevs.com/features/703378/how-cold-affects-electric-vehicles/

https://insideevs.com/news/696918/ev-range-loss-in-winter/

[NONOBLITUS]

Ha or switch to NO batteries and play all year like we do.

[Carp]

[jokers]

Well then this is your reminder to pull the batteries out of your Chronograph

[Daltech]

For a second I was wondering what kind of chemistry “no” battery’s were made up of.

[NONOBLITUS]

Ha yea it is a solid reminder and a good one. I have taken over a section in our home to keep all my stuff nice and warm all winter.

[SignOfZeta]

How cold are we talking? You have to get an alkaline or NiMH rechargeable *real* friggn cold to do actual damage. Like probably -40F. You can leave a sealed pack of Duracells in a snow bank for five years and and soon as they warm up again they are fine. Old fashioned batteries are like bacteria or brine shrimp in that cold only slows them down. It almost can’t kill them.

LiPo on the other…such finicky explosive ephemera that software and controllers are required to even use them. Get them too cold and if the voltage gets too low they won’t ever charge again. Load or charge them too much and they explode. Large ones require heating and cooling because the “safe” range is so narrow and the power delivery so extreme. It’s a level of efficiency I simply don’t need except in high end devices like phones and laptops.

HEAT on the other hand is bad for all batteries. A little heat kills them a little, a lot of heat kills them faster.

[k_obeastly]

Does nobody have a picture of an electro with a wool coat?

[Painthappy]

So I shouldn't keep mine in the freezer next to my monterballs for long term storage? Damn....

[Carp]

...is there some California Magnum Black Beauty, with the camouflage cardboard box, in cryo storage? 😉