Know the Secret of Extending your Battery Life
Our lives are continuously becoming dependent on electronic gadgets and gizmos, so the race is on to optimize battery life and make devices operate for much longer. Extending battery life is not just about convenience—it is also better for the environment. From heart rate monitors to clocks to 2-way communication devices and even toys, we rely on too many things that use far too many batteries, and the sheer volume has a huge negative impact on the environment. If you want to make your life easier while helping the planet at the same time, you have to find ways to extend the life of each battery you use.
Batteries in themselves are quite energy dense and today's batteries have more capacity than ever. What sets the limit to their life is how our devices actually use the stored power within these mini power plants. You see, devices run off a certain threshold amount. A new battery sufficiently meets this requirement for a device to operate. However, voltage output gradually drop as the battery discharges. Therein lies the problem. As devices will operate only up to a certain minimum voltage requirement, they will stop working when the battery discharges enough to go below this limit. A new 1.5V cell with a full charge delivers the full 1.5V, but gradually drops the voltage as it is used or discharged. So if your device is designed to run off a minimum of 1.3V, it stops working when the battery output drops below that output—even if the battery still has a lot of charge left. It’s not really fully spent or dead—it just cannot push out the needed voltage to operate the device. Plug it in to another device that can run off 1.2V and you can actually still use the same "dead" battery.
The secret if you want to optimize battery life is to sustain the voltage output of your battery no matter the charge level. That is what devices like DC battery boosters do for you. They introduce a discreet circuit that helps maintain your battery voltage output to the required level to extend their use.













