Rev.0 LEPTON
Service
manual
OXYGEN S.p.A.
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BRIEF NOTES ON USE OF LEPTON BATTERIES
The battery is influenced by the way of use.
The battery is a “variable” tank. If you take as a reference an internal combustion
vehicle you know that the higher the average speed, the more the driving is unsteady
(strong accelerations), the heaviest the loads (people and goods), the greatest the
kilometric consumption. The same is for the batteries of any kind of electrochemical
pair. In order to increase the autonomy it is necessary to run accurately the energy of
the elettrochemical accumulators avoiding abrupt accelerations and brakings, or
acceleration when standing at the traffic light.
The battery performance is influenced by temperature.
In internal combustion vehicles the differences are very slight also because the
functioning temperature of the motor is higher than the external one. In the batteries
instead, chemical and elettrochemical reactions which supply electric energy do not
develop heating significantly , so the battery is influenced by the environment
temperature.
The decrease of performance can be significant, you can suppose a decrease of
performance, under the same conditions of use, even of 50% b30°C and 0°C.
To be precise, the temperature of reference is that inside the battery.
The thermic exchange with the environment is limited by the thermic protection
given by the plastic material which hold the same.
It is advisable to keep it “warm”, charging it, if possibile, in warm environment so
that to begin to use the vehicle with the battery warmer than the temperature outside.
In this way, the autonomy of the vehicle will be influenced in an unconsiderable way by
the environment temperature.
Keep the battery charged.
Lead-acid and Nichel-Zinc battteries must be kept charged the more you can. They
require
a recharge as soon as possibile,
even for short periods of time and even if
uncompletely.
The time of life of the battery is influenced by its use.
The deeper the battery discharge, the less the accumulator can bear cycles of
charge and discharge. Besides, this relation is not linear, for instance by halving the
depth of discharge, the endurance – measured in numbers of cycles of charge and
discharge – becomes more than the double. On the whole, the battery will supply more
energy , this is to say more run kilometers before it has to be replaced.
So it is advisable to avoid deep descharges and recharge the vehicle after using it
every time.
