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SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I have so many handheld gaming devices and now tamagotchi with built in lipos. I can see them going bad in the next year or so. Somebody needs to make a multi plug system that you can leave a dozen or so plugged into just to tend the built in batteries.

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Skv@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sadly only really works with lead acid and nimh. Lipo rig to keep track of %s, letting them drain enough and only then top them off slowly - way too convoluted.

I’d make an organizer of sorts and put dated labels on things and just check bi-annually.

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- SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Unfortunately I have probably a grand worth of RC airplane and Quadcopter lipos that are waiting to explode next time I charge them, since I haven’t flown in the last two years. I wish something better would show up that isn’t as delicate. I’m rooting for high density capacitors.
  
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  - Skv@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    At least there are fancy dumb lipo chargers that you can hook up several batteries of same stats to and charge em in batches.
    
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    SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I have some of those for my tiny whoops and other 1 or 2 cell quads to charge a batch of them with my fancy charger. Still, I have to calculate the charge rate for the batch.
    
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A multi-plug charging system would be great. It could be a strip of power outlets maybe? Call it “Strip-of-Power” or “power strip” even.

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- SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Heh. I do have a power strip attached to my shelf of handhelds. That isn’t the problem. If I just plug them all in all the time, they will charge to full and stay there. It isn’t great for their battery life. I need something that detects their charge and only stays on long enough to charge them to half full, then shuts off, and I need that for a dozen devices.
  
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