Never charge Li-on batteries when you are not in the same room with them is very good advise. My son was charging his batteries in his room and decided to get some fresh air while he waited for them to charge. Within 20 minuets our house was on fire, the entire 2nd floor was a burned out shell and by the time the fire department (God Bless them) got put the last flames out, most of the first floor and basement were near total losses as well due to water damage. All of that just because a battery overheated during charging.
Carleton McCarty OMFG. Thank you for sharing your story. I didn't know how serious to take that bit of advice especially since it's super inconvenient… But clearly it's NOT “paranoid.”
So, so sorry to hear about your experience! Wow, thank you for sharing; people need to know that being extra cautious with batteries is not going over the top or being "paranoid.."
Great video! I follow most of these rules. I never overcharge, always remove them after use, never let a battery drain out to zero, never put a heated battery on charging and i store them inside an insulator so that the terminals don't get sorted accidentally. These are my general rules of usage.
Thank you, thank you! I just unplugged a bunch of stuff in the house. No need for a fire around me. You probably saved a bunch of us from terrible problems on many levels.
Great tips! Definitely will change my battery charging habits. Robert Hall made a similar video last week and for some reason deleted it. I’ll will be sharing this with my colleagues.
Great video. Can confirm rule number 5. A few weeks ago I managed to run both my AD200 batteries to zero during 2 weddings that spanned an 18hr day. They no longer last as long because of this and had to buy a couple of spares. Another good tip is to buy some LIPO bags for when you charge. Great tip on getting a smoke alarm for the room that the chargers are in. I will definitely buy one ASAP and just leave it with my chargers.
Interesting story about the two weddings back to back. I never heard of LIPO bags and just searched for them. What a clever idea. I am going to pick up some for my batteries. I have about 30 or so batteries and they seem harmless but you never know! You charge batteries in them also?
Good to see. This is exactly what we are doing with large LiPo batteries in model aviation. I discharge an 8 cell 4,000 mah pack in 5 minutes of flying a 90mm RC Jet to 15% capacity. The cells get hot, but always let them cool down before recharging and charge to 50% for storage. My balancing charger undoubtably helps a lot to prolong their life.
My second visit to this video to refresh the rules. The biggest take away is not to leave batteries unattended. Drama from my blg in NYC since I last visited. An E BiKe co moved into the ground floor! They stored the bikes and did recharges with huge lithium battery chargers...this old brownstone in NYC has very old wiring ....lighting in our hallway would go out and emergency sounds would ring...the fire dept said they couldnt do anything because this battery problem is new concerning E bikes...I was always so careful when I was shooting at home not to plug in too many lights etc.....well here is the good news.....a few days ago there was a big sign on the door stating that the company had to vacate so, they are gone much to our relief...now just to get the criminals downstairs evicted! Thanks again for very important info.F stops and modifiers mean nothing when your space burns down.
Yikes, you have probably saved my house, I did the opposite to everyone of your recommendations! Thank you so much! In the past I saw videos from both, FStoppers and Tony Northrup, showing their studios and both had charging stations full of batteries charging all the time (explained by them).
I’ve watched most of his. I don’t k ow where he finds the time for his thorough testing. Most of my testing comes from using stuff in the field for my work. I don’t have much time outside of my photography work for RUclips specific testing.
Wes! That was awesome, thank you. Much appreciated. I too only recharge batteries when I'm in the same room or the next one, else they're off the charger :)
I hope Adorama / Godox is PAYING YOU for these videos -- you are a GREAT SALESMAN for the brand -- and you really provide great info. I would not trust these products if not for you. 100%.
Lol. Nope, I have no relationship with them other than an affiliate account with adorama...and to be honest that doesn’t see much action, as everyone just buys on amazon instead 😂
Appreciate you making this video. What you are sharing makes absolute perfect sense and nothing wrong with being a little bit paranoid (cautious) when dealing with charging batteries or anything electrical. You never know and it is best to be aware and cautious! I will be taking your advice! I just purchased my Godox V860iii flash in December and love it. Battery seems to last a long time. Will be taking your advice and removing the flash after use.
Good tips, even my shop keeper's technician didn't say any of these things when we bought additional battery for my godox AD200 strobe. I have even AD600E and 860 II speedlite , godox 500w LED ( 2 batteries). So, I too own 6 batteries. Lol.... thx a lot.
The hardest is storing them around half full. I keep my back up battery charged for weddings and it says charged until it's needed. I always have to keep the flash battery and the back up full and ready to go. For off season it's easier.
Thanks, Wes, very helpful. This should be shown to everyone who flies a drone. People just don’t realize. A question: how do you deal with the following two scenarios: 1. You have a spare battery, charged it to 100% (or 99% as I have learned 😉) and didn’t use it for the shoot. Next shoot might be a while in the future. Would you drain the battery to 50-80% using the modeling lamp, or just leave it as is? 2. The main battery has drained to 20% during the shoot. Would you charge it to 99%, or rather less when you don’t know when the next shoot will be? Thanks and keep up the good work 👍
A lot of modern drones actually have some pretty great built in battery storage tech. You can tell some DJI chargers/batteries to discharge to a “storage state”. But if I charged a flash battery and didn’t use it, I’d fire off a few 1/1 shots to take the edge off. And after a shoot, I check the charge level, and get them up to about 50%+ before putting them away.
@@WesPerry Darn, that's about time! It's such a pity so many professional chargers don't offer a storage-charge option (while it's completely understandable from a professional standpoint, where the batteries are usually used heavily and get charged for the next day and long-term storage is less of an issue) I still think about making an adapter to fit between the V-mount charger and a V-mount battery, where I can set to stop charging at about 3,6 Volt/cell so it just gets charged to about 45% (which is the state my new cells to be put in my V-mounts where shipped in)
Wish I knew sooner ... ugh left battery in my 400pro haven’t used for few months ... no good now! So frustrating, nothing in “manual” about this. Now I know.
You manage to make your videos engaging, next thing you know 5 mins has passed and I havenèt even noticed. Good job. Also, as mentioned before, your light is amazing. Just a small note the music at 1:04 was suddenly loud, and louder than you voice, that zoned me out of the video, then you reduced the volume. I would suggest to already begin at a low volume, at least lower that your voice.
Thank you, thank you!!! I learned something useful and life saving. I had a lot of wrong information formulated in my noggin. I vow to be a better battery manager.
Great info! As you pointed out, it’s all in the info if you read it. But, not everyone takes the time and different people do learn differently 🤨. Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the great info. Over the years I used a timer to charge my nicad and nickel hydride batteries for about an hour per day. I’ll have to have a separate recharge routine for the lithium batteries because they don’t discharge as rapidly, to only an hour or two per week....
I considered making it just generally about Li-ion batteries...but it probably wouldn’t get as many hits that way, as people just aren’t looking for that on RUclips. Lots of people have been frustrated with Godox batteries more specifically, though, not realizing there is a bit of care required to keep them working well.
Subscribed because of the video! great info this is the kind of stuff that is most valuable and helpful. Thanks for the content going over your other videos glad I found your channel will save me im sure for future shoots.
Good grief! #1 Guilty. #2 Guilty. #3 Guilty. #4 Guilty. #4A (Stay in the room) Guilty. #5 Guilty. Are there AA meetings to attend for 5-step battery abuse? I'm convinced, particularly after my cell phone battery swelling incident I mentioned in your V860iii video comments. Thanks for turning me around here... I thought I was going to learn how to save battery life-what I learned was how to save my family's life. Wes, thank you! PS. Guess I need a better battery charger that gives more information about the battery.
@@WesPerry Yeah as you explains or the " DON'Ts" I had done with my battery. Like leaving it on charge or charging it right after finishing the shoot not letting it cool down, I will practice your instructions now, So thanks much this helps a lot!!!!
In my personal opinion, the advantages well outweigh the disadvantages when it comes to these. Enormous battery life and faster recycle time is definitely still worth it.
Thanks for this video! Just bought my first piece of Godox equipment so I can get it correct right out of the gate, thanks to your expertise. I do have a question though. Why did my spare battery come with a cleaning cloth? hahahaha
Okay, Wes I just watch the responsible way to use your battery and preserve a battery life. Thanks. I wish I saw this 6 month ago.. Ps. I did purchase a set of flashpoint v200 and did leave the battery 🔋 inside and after watching your review O-boy I pulled both of them out and about to put them on the charger. Again thank You you help-better late than never
The battery pull out one seems to be much less statistically relevant on the 200’s and V860 models. But is very important on the 400 and 600 models. Still best practice on all of them, though! Glad I could help!
pretty solid and useful video, man ;) . thanks very much. PS: i believe my ad200 battery is dead. either that or the charger. the LEDs light up for a couple of seconds, when i plug it in...and then they go off. i assumed the battery was fully charged..but when i put it in the ad200...the flash won’t even turn on.
Wes Perry hey, thanks for the quick response, much appreciated it. if i recall one cannot charge the battery via usb, within the flash, right ? just to run through the variables,here. it’s funny , it has had probably less than 20 battery cycles.. in 2 years.. so i am thinking it died due little use.. What do you reckon ? thanks again.
Wes Perry i reckon it might have been the charging to 100% approach.. and then not using it ...for a couple of weeks. But..i mean... it’s had so little use lately..that i believe it was most probably..due to that... It’s still weird though...as the battery on the v860 is fine..and i normally charge them at the same time. i am over in Europe..and.. i bought the flashes over amazon..so i reckon it is going to be a pain..to getting any service, or even any feedback from them, concerning this matter. would you disagree ? thanks very much for the feedback ;)
So what’s the best way to partially drain a battery if you don’t use very much of it during a shoot? I assume just doing full power flashes would also be bad for the bulb’s lifespan.
I generally wouldn’t advise doing that unless you’re planning on storing them for more than a day or two. If you have another shoot coming up just use it then. Otherwise just leave the flash on for a little bit while you’re editing to take the edge off the battery. Purposefully draining batteries (some say to purposefully put a resistive load on the battery to drain it a bit) is getting into a whole other realm of risk. It’s definitely a game of practicality vs ideal practice, and you won’t be able to win every single time.
My battery for the AD400Pro failed during storage. I had charged it 2 or 3 times before. After investigating the issue, this started to look like a rather common feature in these batteries. They seem to require recharging every now and then, even for stored units. The manual does not give any advice on this, only stating that a full recharge is needed if the unit has been unused for more than 3 months (if I understand the odd wording in the manual correctly). Well, that didn't help much.
Yeah, they have a relatively high self discharge rate, and will eventually get down too low to be recognized by their chargers. It’s possible to charge them back up again, but a current limited, variable voltage charger is required to accomplish this, and is a very touchy process.
Laptop batteries, generally speaking, are vastly more advanced when it comes to charge controllers, cell voltage leveling, wear leveling, etc. While some of the rules obviously still need to be followed (like not overheating), they’re generally fine to leave on the charger all the time (modern ones, that is), as the controllers will manage them. These days when your computer, or even cell phone, tells you it’s charged to 100%, it’s actually somewhere between 100 and 105% (approximately) and allows it to drift up and down in that range so it’s not always trick charging, or maxing the charge. That’s why sometimes 100% seems to last a strangely long amount of time, and sometimes no time at all. It has a hidden margin of error for battery maintenance. Additionally electric cars like Tesla’s actually only charge to 60-80% of the total battery capacity when they say 100%. This allows them to limit or even eliminate max charge damage to the cells, and ramp up cell usage later in the life of the system to prolong the overall battery life.
For those with dead batteries (like the AD200 batteries that can't be opened): I managed to revive a dead AD200 battery (red light, no green lights on the charger). I kept it on the charger (plugged in) for 1 and a half days and eventually the green lights came on and now it's at 100%. I think there's a small current going throught the charger that will slowly bring the battery back from deep sleep. I read about it in a RUclips comment on a video with dead Godox batteries. The guy had to leave it charging for almost a week :)
It could very well be that the charger (like many) puts out pulses to see how a connected battery responds and if it responds correctly, starts its normal charge sequence but when a 'defective' battery is inserted, it will either pulse until you remove it, or (at some point) see the voltage go up to a set level and start normal charging algorithm. Some chargers have zero-volt charging ability, where they limit the current to a very low 200 mA or so (completely dependent on the battery ofcourse) and if the battery responds well, it will eventually hit the voltage level where the normal charging algorithm starts. I even got my genuine Sony battery (it's well over 15 years old by now!) for my DSC-R1 photocamera back to life by carefully charging it with my laboratory power supply at 50 mA or so for about half an hour. By that time, voltage had gone up to a healthy level and I popped it on the original charger, which charged it fine within 4 hours or so. And even in the camera it STILL works... Sony has made quite the battery.
I did this yesterday. On friday, I had 2 batteries that was red with no green. I tried to "shock it" back to life by pulling in and out of the wall, and left it for a while. Left it out for about 24 hours, and when I tried it again BOTH batteries got a static green light. After a few more in and outs it started charging. What "scares" me now, is that every time i just testcharge it now, its back to 2 greens. But it does say full when I put it on the AD400
@@weeardguy My dad tried to explain this to me yesterday, that its the new chargers "fault", because its controlled by electronics. An older charger would give it all once you put it in. He also almost wanted to make a "jumper cable" by using a batteryplug-end on both sides of a cable, like you start a car battery 😅
@@MariusVolden Uh no, that has nothing to do with it: lithium-ion chargers have always been intelligent, just like lithium-ion batteries also have their own electronics inside to protect it. If it gets overdischarged, it depends on the electronics in the battery and charger what will happen: some batteries allow zero-volt charging and start with a very low current to get the voltage back up to a normal level, and then resume normal charging algorithm. During zero-volt and normal charging the charger or electronics inside the battery are keeping an eye on how the battery responds: if cell-voltage stays behind or does not increase according to a preset rate set in the charger or batteries' electronics, it will stop charging and report a fault. Other chargers are a bit more picky and just quit charging as soon as you overdeplete your battery. And than there are the batteries with electronics in it that just cut off the cells from the outside world as soon as it has been overdischarged too much or a bit less but for too long. Same for imbalance in the cells: if one cell starts to degrade too much, it will report an imbalance fault and cut the cells off from ever being charged or discharged again. If it's a really bad fault, the electronics will also blow a logic fuse, a fuse that can be blown on external command. This is a kind of last resort and is usually only done if the protective electronics themselves can't handle the fault anymore (read: protection immediately requests to terminate charging due to a serious fault, the charge-FET has gone short and thus current keeps flowing even though the main-protection IC tried to get the FET to stop conducting. It still senses current flowing and thus blows the fuse to end the situation. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about ;) I recelled my own V-mount batteries and had to reset and reprogram the BMS (gas gauge) system in them to get 'em going again.
Bonus bonus rule: Buy quality products instead of "bargain" Chicom junk, especially when you're dealing with electricity. Bonus bonus tip: According to the company's website, its a short "o" not a long one.
I know that’s how it’s pronounced, but I’m not a fan of that sound, as it referencing a pagan ox god...and I’d rather not. Haha And as far as pricing goes, not everyone can afford Profoto prices. Business expense or not, I live in a region of lower means and lower pricing. Most pro photographers around here are still using Neewer strobes and nothing fancier. Only one person in the region uses Profoto, and he has to travel across the country to charge the prices he does to support that (and his Hasselblad). Godox is an amazing balance of price v performance that allows a much larger swath of the photography market to produce high quality content.
@@WesPerry Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I can't afford Profoto either. I'm still rocking a motley collection of speedlights, mostly in manual or old-school auto-aperture mode, fired with a Phottix dumb trigger. I will say my Yong-Nuo 560-II has taken a licking and kept on ticking, though my secondhand SB-28 goes everywhere with me these days since it's smaller and lighter (and TTL should work on my Z 7 but I've never tried it). My work is mostly amateur and pro bono shoots for a couple of local non-profits (I'm a director of one) with the occasional paying job or licensed photo. My family and I were in Vietnam last summer, visiting my wife's family. I counted at least a half-dozen wedding photographers at the Ba Na Hills theme park, including in the crush of people on the Golden Bridge. All of them were using some Godox-like monolight, with 7" reflector, on a pole held by an assistant. I may pop for Paul C. Buff one of these days, though the separate battery pack isn't as convenient for my one-bag travels.
Daryl Davis I had three Yongnuo 560iv’s...and melted down all their voltage regulators. Then I replaced them with slightly hardier components...and eventually melted this down as well 😂 I guess I’m a bit hard on my flashes? 🤷🏻♂️
REALLY useful video thanks! I'm just about to switch to strobes, hence watching this, and am so glad I have. When I charge my E-bike battery, I always make sure I'm around and never away, thanks to you I'll never leave li-on batteries alone when charging. Q though, is it then safer to use strobes plugged in rather than relying on batteries? If I'm using them in studio, not mobile, then I don't need the battery packs and could plug them in. Also, for faster recycling times, which I'll need, does this increase the chance of over heating and damaging the batteries? Thanks for all info in this video...I will be using these rules.
If you’re talking about charging the battery While shooting, that’s a definite no-no. That can damage the battery. Some Godox flashes have “sold-separately” ac adapters that can be used. Oddly enough they have no impact at all on overheating and recycle times.
Good stuff. Practical and common-sense. Thanks for sharing! I wish my V1 chargers had an LED to show current state of charge. It's just red or green light for charging / completed. Is there an option for a charger that shows current state of charge without having to pop back into the flash to check every 30 mins or so?
My AD600 Pro battery just died- It was not attached to the flash. I flip off the power strip as soon as they're done charging.. I do my best to control temperature, and it's never been depleted to 0%. All I can think, is that I charged it to 100%, then left it longer than I thought because of this stay at home order. Only a few weeks! Hopefully the warranty is honored. :(
Eek. That’s too old for warranty. Most batteries are only warrantied for 90 days at most (as they’re considered a consumable), and we’re over a year already. Might just have to consider it “worn out” and replace it. I know that’s not what you want to hear, as the batteries for those flashes are about the priciest things Godox sells.
@@WesPerry The unit as a whole has a 3 year warranty 🤞.. If they don't honor that, I don't want to try that repair I've seen by myself. I'll find someone to try it for me 😩
Holy cow! Yeah, Adorama is Definitely the place to buy those, then! Best I can get in Canada is a year, I think. Or buying on Amazon can get you a whole Nothing I’m warranty! 😂
I don’t. I believe there are some out there, but personally I wouldn’t post any, because there’s too much risk of fire or damage when done improperly, or if a mistake is made. So for those reasons I can’t personally recommend trying it.
Hey Wes, good tips! I Any any good hacks to drain a fully charged spare batteries to a suitable charge level for storage? Also adding to the bit about storing batteries in plastic cases. Just to share with anyone reading. It helps to prevent the contact points of separate batteries from touching each other accidentally, short circuiting and starting a fire. It’s a bit of inconvenient and expense but it’s a safety precaution worth taking. Fires can spread fast in our modern homes filled with many synthetic materials that can catch fire easily, quickly, and produces noxious fumes. Stay safe everybody! 🙏
I’m trying to stay away from advising methods of intentionally draining batteries, as that introduces its own risks. I have enough shoots that it’s usually not long before I have a battery drained again for work anyway.
most modern charge controllers have ability to detect fully charged battery and stop charging them or go into maintenance mode. So it is fine to leave batteries in the chargers. Yes, keeping them at 50% when not in use is better for the battery, but if you need it right away or you forgot to charge it up before the trip, nothing is more inconvenient then to realize your battery will not last your shoot when you are already at the location. To me batteries are consumables and I treat them as such. It does not matter if you baby-sit your battery and it lasts you couple of years longer because for most of technology, the device that the battery powers will become obsolete or at least seriously outdated by the time your battery (and spare) run out life's course.
Scan through a few of the comments here. There are a few people who have had fires or even homes burn down by leaving batteries on chargers. It hasn’t happened to me, but I’ve seen the results with my own two eyes. Many leave their batteries on 24/7/365, and that maintenance cycle is just a “reduced risk cycle”, and risk is risk, and risk should be mitigated when possible, especially when life safety is concerned. Don’t be blade just because it hasn’t happened to you (yet), when other have lost property and family to such things. It’s both ignorant and insensitive.
@@WesPerry You obviously has more life experience seeing what bad batteries can do in an unfortunate situation, but I have to wonder if there is a statistics that would show correlation of the house fire incidents with the adoption of the modern electronics that are all fully dependent on daily charging routines. Each household has probably at least a dozen of small electronics or rechargeable batteries being charged on a regular basis and, for all I know, most people are completely oblivious to the potential danger they are in and do not practice best safety advises. If batteries are as dangerous as you say, we should see a spike of incidents on a national level, yet I have not seen any reports that sound an alarm. I remember a time when similar advise was given to always disconnect your appliances from the outlet when not in use to prevent fires that can be caused by shortcuts or spikes in the grid. I sincerely doubt many people follow that advise either as more and more appliances are practically begging to stay connected 24x7 as they become smart.
Dima Habenko The risk has more to do with the capacity in the battery than the existence of a battery itself. Most cell phone contain small enough batteries that they’ll mostly smoke out instead of start a fire, as long as they’re not sitting on something highly flammable, only up to about 15Wh in capacity. An AD200 battery, however, has 41Wh, and AD600 has 96.6Wh of capacity. At that point, if there is an internal failure and a fire, that’s a Tremendous amount of energy being released. Which is why nothing over 99Wh is allowed in an airplane - it’s enough capacity to pose a serious risk to the plane itself if it does fail and catch fire. Most consumers don’t have an lithium ion batteries in their homes with that sort of capacity, just us specialists. And going back to what I said at the beginning of the video, Godox batteries simply aren’t the most reliable, unfortunately, so they are, statistically speaking, more likely to fair. Even if that likelihood is particularly small, I’m willing to do what I can to lower it further.
Wes Perry Understood. So larger rechargeables are at more risk due to higher fire potential. 15Wh, that does not sound like much. Most laptops easily beat that number as pretty much any battery pack and even something as small as a tablet. I believe iPad Pro has ~ 30Wh battery capacity.
Never charge Li-on batteries when you are not in the same room with them is very good advise. My son was charging his batteries in his room and decided to get some fresh air while he waited for them to charge. Within 20 minuets our house was on fire, the entire 2nd floor was a burned out shell and by the time the fire department (God Bless them) got put the last flames out, most of the first floor and basement were near total losses as well due to water damage. All of that just because a battery overheated during charging.
Carleton McCarty OMFG. Thank you for sharing your story. I didn't know how serious to take that bit of advice especially since it's super inconvenient… But clearly it's NOT “paranoid.”
So, so sorry to hear about your experience! Wow, thank you for sharing; people need to know that being extra cautious with batteries is not going over the top or being "paranoid.."
wow hope everything is fine now. Best would be then to charge the battery in a place where nothing can catch fire.
There are a number of videos on RUclips regarding batteries that caught fire - have a look! ;)
Isn't there a safety feature???
You may have saved a life by posting this video! One of your best, yet!
Certainly a higher goal than telling someone how sharp a lens might be 🤷🏻♂️😂
Great video!
I follow most of these rules. I never overcharge, always remove them after use, never let a battery drain out to zero, never put a heated battery on charging and i store them inside an insulator so that the terminals don't get sorted accidentally.
These are my general rules of usage.
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As someone who has literally just ordered a godox v1 (thanks for the review btw!), this is extremely helpful! Thanks for the tips
Thank you, thank you! I just unplugged a bunch of stuff in the house. No need for a fire around me. You probably saved a bunch of us from terrible problems on many levels.
Great tips! Definitely will change my battery charging habits. Robert Hall made a similar video last week and for some reason deleted it. I’ll will be sharing this with my colleagues.
That’s odd. I didn’t see it. He must have taken it back down again before I checked my feed.
Great video. Can confirm rule number 5. A few weeks ago I managed to run both my AD200 batteries to zero during 2 weddings that spanned an 18hr day. They no longer last as long because of this and had to buy a couple of spares.
Another good tip is to buy some LIPO bags for when you charge.
Great tip on getting a smoke alarm for the room that the chargers are in. I will definitely buy one ASAP and just leave it with my chargers.
Interesting story about the two weddings back to back. I never heard of LIPO bags and just searched for them. What a clever idea. I am going to pick up some for my batteries. I have about 30 or so batteries and they seem harmless but you never know! You charge batteries in them also?
I ran back to the room as soon as you said the first one. I searched for this video because my v860ii failed me twice consecutively. Thank you.
Good to see. This is exactly what we are doing with large LiPo batteries in model aviation. I discharge an 8 cell 4,000 mah pack in 5 minutes of flying a 90mm RC Jet to 15% capacity. The cells get hot, but always let them cool down before recharging and charge to 50% for storage. My balancing charger undoubtably helps a lot to prolong their life.
Glad to have this video made by some who actually knows their stuff. So often I see people making these videos by just recycling rumors.
My second visit to this video to refresh the rules.
The biggest take away is not to leave batteries unattended.
Drama from my blg in NYC since I last visited.
An E BiKe co moved into the ground floor! They stored the bikes and did recharges with huge lithium battery chargers...this old brownstone in NYC has very old wiring ....lighting in our hallway would go out and emergency sounds would ring...the fire dept said they couldnt do anything because this battery problem is new concerning E bikes...I was always so careful when I was shooting at home not to plug in too many lights etc.....well here is the good news.....a few days ago there was a big sign on the door stating that the company had to vacate so, they are gone much to our relief...now just to get the criminals downstairs evicted! Thanks again for very important info.F stops and modifiers mean nothing when your space burns down.
Yikes, you have probably saved my house, I did the opposite to everyone of your recommendations! Thank you so much! In the past I saw videos from both, FStoppers and Tony Northrup, showing their studios and both had charging stations full of batteries charging all the time (explained by them).
You are full of surprises Wes. Didn't pick you as a battery nerd but great tips all the same. You and Gerard Undone must be soul brothers.
Society of Canadian photography nerds. 🤓
@@WesPerry Mr G makes interesting videos just like you. He doesn't follow the herd and has a scientific approach to testing. I appreciate his rigor.
I’ve watched most of his. I don’t k ow where he finds the time for his thorough testing. Most of my testing comes from using stuff in the field for my work. I don’t have much time outside of my photography work for RUclips specific testing.
Wes! That was awesome, thank you. Much appreciated. I too only recharge batteries when I'm in the same room or the next one, else they're off the charger :)
Good rules! I have heard these before but sometimes it is hard to do.
Yeah, some of them aren’t super convenient.
Once you start practicing it, you'll eventually get used to it.
I hope Adorama / Godox is PAYING YOU for these videos -- you are a GREAT SALESMAN for the brand -- and you really provide great info. I would not trust these products if not for you. 100%.
Lol. Nope, I have no relationship with them other than an affiliate account with adorama...and to be honest that doesn’t see much action, as everyone just buys on amazon instead 😂
I was planning on shopping while my AD 300 was charging....I pulled the plug till I came home and then started the process again...thanks for the info
Good choice ;)
Appreciate you making this video. What you are sharing makes absolute perfect sense and nothing wrong with being a little bit paranoid (cautious) when dealing with charging batteries or anything electrical. You never know and it is best to be aware and cautious! I will be taking your advice! I just purchased my Godox V860iii flash in December and love it. Battery seems to last a long time. Will be taking your advice and removing the flash after use.
awesome info! I charge on a fireproof surface and only while close by as well
Thanks for the advice as a new Flashpoint user.
GREAT HELP mate! Big thank you from Australia! I just bought my first Godox product the AD200 Pro and XPRO Transmitter .
Wes, my man another AWESOME video. It's great to hear from a person that has a background in SCIENCE...
Damn, and I thought I am maniac about batteries and chargers! Fantastic video! Cheers from Japan!
Good tips, even my shop keeper's technician didn't say any of these things when we bought additional battery for my godox AD200 strobe. I have even AD600E and 860 II speedlite , godox 500w LED ( 2 batteries). So, I too own 6 batteries. Lol.... thx a lot.
Great advice, Wes. Thanks. There has been so much contradictory info on the web regarding Li-ion.
I would love to see a photo of your charging station. I’m about to build one and would like to see how you set it ip
I’m planning a “studio tour” (ie kitchen tour) in the coming weeks 😉
The hardest is storing them around half full. I keep my back up battery charged for weddings and it says charged until it's needed. I always have to keep the flash battery and the back up full and ready to go. For off season it's easier.
Yeah, a lot of this is totally impractical for sure.
Solid advice with ANY lithium ion battery.
Yep!
Thanks, Wes, very helpful. This should be shown to everyone who flies a drone. People just don’t realize. A question: how do you deal with the following two scenarios:
1. You have a spare battery, charged it to 100% (or 99% as I have learned 😉) and didn’t use it for the shoot. Next shoot might be a while in the future. Would you drain the battery to 50-80% using the modeling lamp, or just leave it as is?
2. The main battery has drained to 20% during the shoot. Would you charge it to 99%, or rather less when you don’t know when the next shoot will be?
Thanks and keep up the good work 👍
A lot of modern drones actually have some pretty great built in battery storage tech. You can tell some DJI chargers/batteries to discharge to a “storage state”.
But if I charged a flash battery and didn’t use it, I’d fire off a few 1/1 shots to take the edge off.
And after a shoot, I check the charge level, and get them up to about 50%+ before putting them away.
@@WesPerry Darn, that's about time! It's such a pity so many professional chargers don't offer a storage-charge option (while it's completely understandable from a professional standpoint, where the batteries are usually used heavily and get charged for the next day and long-term storage is less of an issue)
I still think about making an adapter to fit between the V-mount charger and a V-mount battery, where I can set to stop charging at about 3,6 Volt/cell so it just gets charged to about 45% (which is the state my new cells to be put in my V-mounts where shipped in)
Wish I knew sooner ... ugh left battery in my 400pro haven’t used for few months ... no good now! So frustrating, nothing in “manual” about this. Now I know.
Sorry to hear that!
Thank you, Great refresher on how to deal with Lithium-ion batteries.
You manage to make your videos engaging, next thing you know 5 mins has passed and I havenèt even noticed. Good job. Also, as mentioned before, your light is amazing. Just a small note the music at 1:04 was suddenly loud, and louder than you voice, that zoned me out of the video, then you reduced the volume. I would suggest to already begin at a low volume, at least lower that your voice.
Thanks. I’ll keep an eye on it ;)
You are the Mr Rodgers of the RUclips photography community!
Thank you, thank you!!! I learned something useful and life saving. I had a lot of wrong information formulated in my noggin. I vow to be a better battery manager.
Excellent expert comments, thank you.
Really appreciate this advice, Wes
Great advice Wes. love your delivery and great lighting and blurred background
Thanks! Just spilling some knowledge in my kitchen ;)
Great info! As you pointed out, it’s all in the info if you read it. But, not everyone takes the time and different people do learn differently 🤨. Happy Holidays!
I can’t blame people too much, though. Those Godox manuals can be a bit hard to read. 😏
Wes Perry (I did take my batteries out of my flashes after watching, lol 😂)
WOW....This is so so informative video. Thanks for making this.
Well done, Wes. I’m sharing it to my Godox Flash Help group. It saves me from having to do this video now. 😁
Haha. Thanks, Michael!
I’ll have a new video about the Golden Eagle S80 out on Friday as well 👍🏻
Wes Perry Awesome! Love that light.
Thanks for the great info. Over the years I used a timer to charge my nicad and nickel hydride batteries for about an hour per day. I’ll have to have a separate recharge routine for the lithium batteries because they don’t discharge as rapidly, to only an hour or two per week....
Thank you for this insights
Good advice, especially about the fire stuff.
Good stuff man. This video should be a prerequisite for everyone buying consumer electronics.
I considered making it just generally about Li-ion batteries...but it probably wouldn’t get as many hits that way, as people just aren’t looking for that on RUclips. Lots of people have been frustrated with Godox batteries more specifically, though, not realizing there is a bit of care required to keep them working well.
This may be your best video ever. Excellent information!
And here I was expecting this one to just be a throw-away video. Who knew! haha
Great tips Wes. Thanks so much.
Thank you, Wes!
Great tips I will try it . Thank you
That's an excellent video with sound advice for battery charging.
Thanks Wes! I didn't know any of this stuff, and it's very useful.
Thanks for the great info! :)
Hmm, I thought I was battery smart. But I violated rule number 1. Good to know, and thanks for making this video.
It’s especially important with their bigger 400/600 flashes.
Subscribed because of the video! great info this is the kind of stuff that is most valuable and helpful. Thanks for the content going over your other videos glad I found your channel will save me im sure for future shoots.
Glad I could help!
VERY GOOD, JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST GODOX, THANMKS SOMUCH
Very informative. Thank you!
Good grief! #1 Guilty. #2 Guilty. #3 Guilty. #4 Guilty. #4A (Stay in the room) Guilty. #5 Guilty.
Are there AA meetings to attend for 5-step battery abuse? I'm convinced, particularly after my cell phone battery swelling incident I mentioned in your V860iii video comments. Thanks for turning me around here... I thought I was going to learn how to save battery life-what I learned was how to save my family's life. Wes, thank you! PS. Guess I need a better battery charger that gives more information about the battery.
Thank you sir
Thanks a lot. I bought a 3rd. AD400pro battery and I'm going to follow these rules I hope it lasts this time :(
Oh goodness. That bad, eh?
I still have yet to have a single Godox battery fail, personally.
@@WesPerry Yeah as you explains or the " DON'Ts" I had done with my battery. Like leaving it on charge or charging it right after finishing the shoot not letting it cool down, I will practice your instructions now, So thanks much this helps a lot!!!!
Excellent advice.
That is why I bought the 685 with no proprietary battery. I picked up some IKEA rechargeable batteries for $11 with the charger.
In my personal opinion, the advantages well outweigh the disadvantages when it comes to these. Enormous battery life and faster recycle time is definitely still worth it.
Great rules, thanks. There were new things I learned there. Appreciate it!
Thanks for this video! Just bought my first piece of Godox equipment so I can get it correct right out of the gate, thanks to your expertise. I do have a question though. Why did my spare battery come with a cleaning cloth? hahahaha
Almost everything comes with a cleaning cloth these days. They’re everywhere! 😂
Thank you for posting this! Great info. I just learned a lot from it.
aye aye captain
Great advice Wes! Thanks
Okay, Wes I just watch the responsible way to use your battery and preserve a battery life.
Thanks.
I wish I saw this 6 month ago..
Ps. I did purchase a set of flashpoint v200 and did leave the battery 🔋 inside and after watching your review O-boy I pulled both of them out and about to put them on the charger.
Again thank You you help-better late than never
The battery pull out one seems to be much less statistically relevant on the 200’s and V860 models. But is very important on the 400 and 600 models. Still best practice on all of them, though!
Glad I could help!
Wes Perry you the best-plus I love your style You a kool guy
Great video! Very useful info from my 2nd favorite Canadian, ever!
Number one had better not be Chad Kroeger! 😂
7:06 Wish there was a workaround for that. Had a XPlor 600Pro battery die and spent $200 for a replacement.
There are ways of restoring it which can be found on the net, but I can’t necessarily recommend attempting them, as there are some risks involved.
pretty solid and useful video, man ;) .
thanks very much.
PS: i believe my ad200 battery is dead. either that or the charger.
the LEDs light up for a couple of seconds, when i plug it in...and then they go off.
i assumed the battery was fully charged..but when i put it in the ad200...the flash won’t even turn on.
Yeah, sounds like she’s toast. Sorry to hear that.
Wes Perry hey, thanks for the quick response, much appreciated it.
if i recall one cannot charge the battery via usb, within the flash, right ? just to run through the variables,here.
it’s funny , it has had probably less than 20 battery cycles.. in 2 years.. so i am thinking it died due little use.. What do you reckon ?
thanks again.
Yeah, no usb. Well, you heard the rules. Did you break any of them?
Wes Perry i reckon it might have been the charging to 100% approach.. and then not using it ...for a couple of weeks.
But..i mean... it’s had so little use lately..that i believe it was most probably..due to that...
It’s still weird though...as the battery on the v860 is fine..and i normally charge them at the same time.
i am over in Europe..and.. i bought the flashes over amazon..so i reckon it is going to be a pain..to getting any service, or even any feedback from them, concerning this matter.
would you disagree ?
thanks very much for the feedback ;)
How long ago did you buy them?
Someone please outline the points so I could copy paste.. 😂 Thanks, Wes!
If it was written out, then no one would watch my video! Gotta get that RUclips money! Haha
So what’s the best way to partially drain a battery if you don’t use very much of it during a shoot? I assume just doing full power flashes would also be bad for the bulb’s lifespan.
I generally wouldn’t advise doing that unless you’re planning on storing them for more than a day or two. If you have another shoot coming up just use it then. Otherwise just leave the flash on for a little bit while you’re editing to take the edge off the battery. Purposefully draining batteries (some say to purposefully put a resistive load on the battery to drain it a bit) is getting into a whole other realm of risk. It’s definitely a game of practicality vs ideal practice, and you won’t be able to win every single time.
My battery for the AD400Pro failed during storage. I had charged it 2 or 3 times before. After investigating the issue, this started to look like a rather common feature in these batteries. They seem to require recharging every now and then, even for stored units. The manual does not give any advice on this, only stating that a full recharge is needed if the unit has been unused for more than 3 months (if I understand the odd wording in the manual correctly). Well, that didn't help much.
Yeah, they have a relatively high self discharge rate, and will eventually get down too low to be recognized by their chargers.
It’s possible to charge them back up again, but a current limited, variable voltage charger is required to accomplish this, and is a very touchy process.
@@WesPerry haha mine was DOA, do you know if there are more reliable versions of the VB18 batery's available anywhere?
I have yet to see any other options aside from why Godox provides, or even More sketchy third party ones 😂
Brilliant stuff. What about laptops? I'm sure I'm not the only one who leaves them on charge throughout the duration they are being used.
Laptop batteries, generally speaking, are vastly more advanced when it comes to charge controllers, cell voltage leveling, wear leveling, etc. While some of the rules obviously still need to be followed (like not overheating), they’re generally fine to leave on the charger all the time (modern ones, that is), as the controllers will manage them.
These days when your computer, or even cell phone, tells you it’s charged to 100%, it’s actually somewhere between 100 and 105% (approximately) and allows it to drift up and down in that range so it’s not always trick charging, or maxing the charge. That’s why sometimes 100% seems to last a strangely long amount of time, and sometimes no time at all. It has a hidden margin of error for battery maintenance.
Additionally electric cars like Tesla’s actually only charge to 60-80% of the total battery capacity when they say 100%. This allows them to limit or even eliminate max charge damage to the cells, and ramp up cell usage later in the life of the system to prolong the overall battery life.
Thanks so much Wes very helpful!
How do discharge a battery lets say your V860II battery is still at a 100% and you want to store it.
I generally just let it be, tbh, but in theory you could let out several 1/1 shots to get it down a bit.
awesome - thank you so much! I was pretty much doing everything wrong - ha!
You’re not the only one 😏 haha
Thank you very much 👍
Excellent, greatly needed.
For those with dead batteries (like the AD200 batteries that can't be opened):
I managed to revive a dead AD200 battery (red light, no green lights on the charger). I kept it on the charger (plugged in) for 1 and a half days and eventually the green lights came on and now it's at 100%.
I think there's a small current going throught the charger that will slowly bring the battery back from deep sleep. I read about it in a RUclips comment on a video with dead Godox batteries. The guy had to leave it charging for almost a week :)
It could very well be that the charger (like many) puts out pulses to see how a connected battery responds and if it responds correctly, starts its normal charge sequence but when a 'defective' battery is inserted, it will either pulse until you remove it, or (at some point) see the voltage go up to a set level and start normal charging algorithm. Some chargers have zero-volt charging ability, where they limit the current to a very low 200 mA or so (completely dependent on the battery ofcourse) and if the battery responds well, it will eventually hit the voltage level where the normal charging algorithm starts.
I even got my genuine Sony battery (it's well over 15 years old by now!) for my DSC-R1 photocamera back to life by carefully charging it with my laboratory power supply at 50 mA or so for about half an hour. By that time, voltage had gone up to a healthy level and I popped it on the original charger, which charged it fine within 4 hours or so. And even in the camera it STILL works... Sony has made quite the battery.
I did this yesterday. On friday, I had 2 batteries that was red with no green. I tried to "shock it" back to life by pulling in and out of the wall, and left it for a while. Left it out for about 24 hours, and when I tried it again BOTH batteries got a static green light. After a few more in and outs it started charging. What "scares" me now, is that every time i just testcharge it now, its back to 2 greens. But it does say full when I put it on the AD400
@@weeardguy My dad tried to explain this to me yesterday, that its the new chargers "fault", because its controlled by electronics. An older charger would give it all once you put it in. He also almost wanted to make a "jumper cable" by using a batteryplug-end on both sides of a cable, like you start a car battery 😅
@@MariusVolden Uh no, that has nothing to do with it: lithium-ion chargers have always been intelligent, just like lithium-ion batteries also have their own electronics inside to protect it. If it gets overdischarged, it depends on the electronics in the battery and charger what will happen: some batteries allow zero-volt charging and start with a very low current to get the voltage back up to a normal level, and then resume normal charging algorithm. During zero-volt and normal charging the charger or electronics inside the battery are keeping an eye on how the battery responds: if cell-voltage stays behind or does not increase according to a preset rate set in the charger or batteries' electronics, it will stop charging and report a fault.
Other chargers are a bit more picky and just quit charging as soon as you overdeplete your battery.
And than there are the batteries with electronics in it that just cut off the cells from the outside world as soon as it has been overdischarged too much or a bit less but for too long. Same for imbalance in the cells: if one cell starts to degrade too much, it will report an imbalance fault and cut the cells off from ever being charged or discharged again. If it's a really bad fault, the electronics will also blow a logic fuse, a fuse that can be blown on external command. This is a kind of last resort and is usually only done if the protective electronics themselves can't handle the fault anymore (read: protection immediately requests to terminate charging due to a serious fault, the charge-FET has gone short and thus current keeps flowing even though the main-protection IC tried to get the FET to stop conducting. It still senses current flowing and thus blows the fuse to end the situation.
Trust me, I know what I'm talking about ;) I recelled my own V-mount batteries and had to reset and reprogram the BMS (gas gauge) system in them to get 'em going again.
Great tips, thanks.
Excellent information. Great safety first recommendations. Thanks for sharing this, very informative, detailed and timely information. :-)
Great advice thanks
Bonus bonus rule: Buy quality products instead of "bargain" Chicom junk, especially when you're dealing with electricity.
Bonus bonus tip: According to the company's website, its a short "o" not a long one.
I know that’s how it’s pronounced, but I’m not a fan of that sound, as it referencing a pagan ox god...and I’d rather not. Haha
And as far as pricing goes, not everyone can afford Profoto prices. Business expense or not, I live in a region of lower means and lower pricing. Most pro photographers around here are still using Neewer strobes and nothing fancier. Only one person in the region uses Profoto, and he has to travel across the country to charge the prices he does to support that (and his Hasselblad). Godox is an amazing balance of price v performance that allows a much larger swath of the photography market to produce high quality content.
@@WesPerry Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I can't afford Profoto either. I'm still rocking a motley collection of speedlights, mostly in manual or old-school auto-aperture mode, fired with a Phottix dumb trigger. I will say my Yong-Nuo 560-II has taken a licking and kept on ticking, though my secondhand SB-28 goes everywhere with me these days since it's smaller and lighter (and TTL should work on my Z 7 but I've never tried it). My work is mostly amateur and pro bono shoots for a couple of local non-profits (I'm a director of one) with the occasional paying job or licensed photo.
My family and I were in Vietnam last summer, visiting my wife's family. I counted at least a half-dozen wedding photographers at the Ba Na Hills theme park, including in the crush of people on the Golden Bridge. All of them were using some Godox-like monolight, with 7" reflector, on a pole held by an assistant.
I may pop for Paul C. Buff one of these days, though the separate battery pack isn't as convenient for my one-bag travels.
Daryl Davis I had three Yongnuo 560iv’s...and melted down all their voltage regulators. Then I replaced them with slightly hardier components...and eventually melted this down as well 😂
I guess I’m a bit hard on my flashes? 🤷🏻♂️
good advice ,thanks Wes
Great video Wes!
Thanks, John!
very helpful, Thank you
Alright bro I'm in.
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Hey that's the Food Wishes music.
Lol
It’s just some generic final cut/iMovie music that Many people use ;)
REALLY useful video thanks! I'm just about to switch to strobes, hence watching this, and am so glad I have. When I charge my E-bike battery, I always make sure I'm around and never away, thanks to you I'll never leave li-on batteries alone when charging.
Q though, is it then safer to use strobes plugged in rather than relying on batteries? If I'm using them in studio, not mobile, then I don't need the battery packs and could plug them in. Also, for faster recycling times, which I'll need, does this increase the chance of over heating and damaging the batteries? Thanks for all info in this video...I will be using these rules.
If you’re talking about charging the battery While shooting, that’s a definite no-no. That can damage the battery. Some Godox flashes have “sold-separately” ac adapters that can be used. Oddly enough they have no impact at all on overheating and recycle times.
Good stuff. Practical and common-sense. Thanks for sharing! I wish my V1 chargers had an LED to show current state of charge. It's just red or green light for charging / completed. Is there an option for a charger that shows current state of charge without having to pop back into the flash to check every 30 mins or so?
There doesn’t seem to exist such a charger, unfortunately
My AD600 Pro battery just died- It was not attached to the flash. I flip off the power strip as soon as they're done charging.. I do my best to control temperature, and it's never been depleted to 0%.
All I can think, is that I charged it to 100%, then left it longer than I thought because of this stay at home order. Only a few weeks! Hopefully the warranty is honored. :(
Hopefully you bought it somewhere that gives you a warranty?
@@WesPerryFrom Adorama in Dec 2018!
Eek. That’s too old for warranty. Most batteries are only warrantied for 90 days at most (as they’re considered a consumable), and we’re over a year already. Might just have to consider it “worn out” and replace it.
I know that’s not what you want to hear, as the batteries for those flashes are about the priciest things Godox sells.
@@WesPerry The unit as a whole has a 3 year warranty 🤞.. If they don't honor that, I don't want to try that repair I've seen by myself. I'll find someone to try it for me 😩
Holy cow!
Yeah, Adorama is Definitely the place to buy those, then!
Best I can get in Canada is a year, I think. Or buying on Amazon can get you a whole Nothing I’m warranty! 😂
Awesome video! This really helped me a lot!
Thank you so much for the information.
Do you have a tutorial to fix/revive the Godox WB26 battery?
I have two 'dead' batteries.
I don’t. I believe there are some out there, but personally I wouldn’t post any, because there’s too much risk of fire or damage when done improperly, or if a mistake is made. So for those reasons I can’t personally recommend trying it.
Cool! Thanks for sharing this!
Good to know!!
Thanks! Best advice I've heard about batteries. Your vids popping! Which lens did you film with?
Thanks! My main camera is a Sony a9 with the 35 1.4 ZA 👌🏻 (links in description)
@@WesPerry thanks, sweet combo!!
Hey Wes, good tips! I Any any good hacks to drain a fully charged spare batteries to a suitable charge level for storage?
Also adding to the bit about storing batteries in plastic cases. Just to share with anyone reading. It helps to prevent the contact points of separate batteries from touching each other accidentally, short circuiting and starting a fire. It’s a bit of inconvenient and expense but it’s a safety precaution worth taking. Fires can spread fast in our modern homes filled with many synthetic materials that can catch fire easily, quickly, and produces noxious fumes. Stay safe everybody! 🙏
I’m trying to stay away from advising methods of intentionally draining batteries, as that introduces its own risks. I have enough shoots that it’s usually not long before I have a battery drained again for work anyway.
most modern charge controllers have ability to detect fully charged battery and stop charging them or go into maintenance mode. So it is fine to leave batteries in the chargers. Yes, keeping them at 50% when not in use is better for the battery, but if you need it right away or you forgot to charge it up before the trip, nothing is more inconvenient then to realize your battery will not last your shoot when you are already at the location.
To me batteries are consumables and I treat them as such. It does not matter if you baby-sit your battery and it lasts you couple of years longer because for most of technology, the device that the battery powers will become obsolete or at least seriously outdated by the time your battery (and spare) run out life's course.
Scan through a few of the comments here. There are a few people who have had fires or even homes burn down by leaving batteries on chargers. It hasn’t happened to me, but I’ve seen the results with my own two eyes.
Many leave their batteries on 24/7/365, and that maintenance cycle is just a “reduced risk cycle”, and risk is risk, and risk should be mitigated when possible, especially when life safety is concerned. Don’t be blade just because it hasn’t happened to you (yet), when other have lost property and family to such things. It’s both ignorant and insensitive.
@@WesPerry You obviously has more life experience seeing what bad batteries can do in an unfortunate situation, but I have to wonder if there is a statistics that would show correlation of the house fire incidents with the adoption of the modern electronics that are all fully dependent on daily charging routines. Each household has probably at least a dozen of small electronics or rechargeable batteries being charged on a regular basis and, for all I know, most people are completely oblivious to the potential danger they are in and do not practice best safety advises. If batteries are as dangerous as you say, we should see a spike of incidents on a national level, yet I have not seen any reports that sound an alarm.
I remember a time when similar advise was given to always disconnect your appliances from the outlet when not in use to prevent fires that can be caused by shortcuts or spikes in the grid. I sincerely doubt many people follow that advise either as more and more appliances are practically begging to stay connected 24x7 as they become smart.
Dima Habenko The risk has more to do with the capacity in the battery than the existence of a battery itself. Most cell phone contain small enough batteries that they’ll mostly smoke out instead of start a fire, as long as they’re not sitting on something highly flammable, only up to about 15Wh in capacity. An AD200 battery, however, has 41Wh, and AD600 has 96.6Wh of capacity. At that point, if there is an internal failure and a fire, that’s a Tremendous amount of energy being released. Which is why nothing over 99Wh is allowed in an airplane - it’s enough capacity to pose a serious risk to the plane itself if it does fail and catch fire.
Most consumers don’t have an lithium ion batteries in their homes with that sort of capacity, just us specialists. And going back to what I said at the beginning of the video, Godox batteries simply aren’t the most reliable, unfortunately, so they are, statistically speaking, more likely to fair. Even if that likelihood is particularly small, I’m willing to do what I can to lower it further.
Wes Perry Understood. So larger rechargeables are at more risk due to higher fire potential. 15Wh, that does not sound like much. Most laptops easily beat that number as pretty much any battery pack and even something as small as a tablet. I believe iPad Pro has ~ 30Wh battery capacity.
Thank you so much for this!!!!
A super useful video, thanks!!