Old batteries on off board charger

[ronzul]

Hi there

My p series batteries have started to lose capacity (down a couple of kilometres) but still reasonably usable.

When I purchase new batteries, I would want to keep these ones as spares.

I would not intend to use the old ones on a regular basis, and would just leave them connected to the off board charger, or disconnected completely.

Does anyone know if there would be significant (further) deterioration in the capacity of the batteries by keeping them in this way.

(It would be difficult for me to swap out the old and new batteries, and would only keep the old ones for emergency purposes). From the manual for the off board charger, there does not appear to be a "discharge button", so there would not be any easy way to exercise the batteries apart from attaching them to Seggie.

Cheers
Ronny



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Who said that you shouldn't get carried away on your Segway?

[wheels]

I'm sorry to say it but..... at the present time I think there aren't any batteries to be available for the 'P'. I would also think that sometime in the future they would have to make them available for yuor 'P'.

"Life's a wheelie when you're on a Segway"

[Jman44]

Umm I think P series batteries are available http://shop.segway.com/detail.aspx?ID=9

[Dragan]

P series batteries (NiMH) are indeed available. We have them in stock. Overall, it would be best to exercise the batteries occasionally, but if the choice is to have them fully discharged, or on trickle with an off board charger, go with the charger
Wayne

Segway of Alberta - Calgary
www.mysegway.ca

[dgbint]

Hi Ronny

If you keep batteries on an off-board charger we would not expect any further deterioation.
You wou probably want to actually use them and discharge them a bit every 3 months or so, by putting them on to your machine.

We have batteries and chargers here.

Best regards
Michael

www.segwaysoutherncross.com