How to Charge a Rechargeable Battery

When you buy a new pack of rechargeable batteries, you cannot use them out of the packaging. They will only have a partial charge, if any charge at all. When those batteries come off the assembly line, they already are degrading the energy store up in them. By the time you buy them, who knows how long they have been on the shelf waiting to be bought. So, before you use new rechargeable batteries, you have to condition them and charge them to get the most use out of them from the get go.

Conditioning rechargeable batteries is easy to do. You want to condition batteries because this “teaches” them to hold a larger charge. You can only hold so much of a charge on a single battery, but when you just start recharging one, it does not actually charge fully. You want to condition a new rechargeable battery by placing it in its charger and letting it sit there for an hour longer than you need to. The second the light turns green letting you know the battery is charged, set a counter for another hour then take it out and use it. Every time you charge the battery, leave it in for an extra hour. This will condition the battery to get the most charge out of it.

After about a month of conditioning a rechargeable battery, you will no longer need to charge it for an extra hour. You should do this with every rechargeable battery you buy to get the most out of it. Rechargeable batteries can be useful in a home where batteries are being used left and right. They save money in the long run and you can get so much more out of them than just what you think when making the purchase. Condition and charge your rechargeable batteries the right way to get everything you can out of them.