LiPo Battery Question
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I am getting ready to receive my KickStarter Omega 2 gear. One thing I would like to know so I can get it ordered, but what battery is recommended for using with the Power Dock? An Amazon.com link would be great.
I am looking at this one. Is it one that will work out of the box with the new Omega 2?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XFO9KQI?psc=1
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@Brad-Buskey Yes, it will. As long as it's a single-cell, 3.7V LiPo it'll work. Multi-cell batteries, like e.g. ones with 7.4V voltage, are a no-no. Just make sure the polarity on the pins is correct when plugging the battery in.
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@WereCatf Thanks. I will pick one of those up, then.
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@WereCatf I'm not expert on LiPo batteries, so I would like to know if any kind of 3.7V, with different Ah capacity would be suitable for use with the power dock. Can I buy a 150mAh, or a 300mAh or even a 10000mAh battery and all of them works?
Thanks,
Stefano
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@Stefano-Bettega It's not the capacity that matters, it just literally affects how long the battery lasts, but it's the nominal voltage that matters. It has to be a single-cell battery, ie. nominal voltage has to be 3.7V, and the cell-type has to be Li-ion or LiPo -- no NiCad, NiMh or whatever other kinds there are these days.
Me, I like to buy e.g. http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-7V-6000mAh-LiPo-Polymer-Battery-For-Power-bank-GPS-PAD-TABLET-PC-13-x-51-x78mm-/181363702598 for my uses and solder a JST-PH 2.0 - header on it, but anything similar works fine. Regardless of whatever you buy, please, always check the polarity is correct -- some sellers mess things up and wire them up the wrong way around.
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I ended up getting this one, and the poles were correct. I did a test to see how long it would power the Omega 2+ with OLED and GPS expansions and the 1200mah went for 4:24. Not bad, enough for most anything I would need it for at this point.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J2QET64/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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@WereCatf so basically all of the 3.7V LiPo batteries found here can be used. Surely a low Ah model will last few but will charge faster than a bigger one. My concern is about the charging current available: if I use an high Ah model, my power dock will charge it without overheating?
Thanks and regards
Stefano
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@Stefano-Bettega said in LiPo Battery Question:
@WereCatf so basically all of the 3.7V LiPo batteries found here can be used. Surely a low Ah model will last few but will charge faster than a bigger one. My concern is about the charging current available: if I use an high Ah model, my power dock will charge it without overheating?
Thanks and regards
StefanoThat is a good question, one I would not mind seeing an answer to. I only use the battery for when I want to move the device from one room to the next, or take it into work without having to power it off.
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@Stefano-Bettega said in LiPo Battery Question:
@WereCatf so basically all of the 3.7V LiPo batteries found here can be used. Surely a low Ah model will last few but will charge faster than a bigger one. My concern is about the charging current available: if I use an high Ah model, my power dock will charge it without overheating?
It's not the capacity that determines the charging-speed, it's the charging-circuit that does. A 500mAh battery will charge at the same speed as a 2000mAh one, so it'll just simply take longer for the bigger battery to get charged full. That is to say, you could safely slap a 20,000mAh battery on it, if you wanted to
