Rune Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi, got a Lavabox on Tuesday and noticed I'm getting week battery when I hit 40-50%. I've been in the Escribe SW and changed the Watt Hours to 9.9 as it has a 900mah 11.1v Lipo and I am planning on running the battery analyzer on the weekend.One thing I noticed on the pbusardo video and some other screen shots is that the Soft Cell Cutoff is set to 3.09v whereas on mine it's 3.66v. Is it safe to set mine to 3.09 and would this be the reason why I'm getting the week battery warning? Or is it more likely that it's a fair bit lower than the advertised 900mah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewisss Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lipos should not be discharged below 3.0 volts the 3.09 gives a bit of clearance.you could quite safely change your settings to 3.09 the standard V for a lipo cell is 3.7v so it is no wonder yours is cutting out so quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Thank you Lewisss, not used Lipos before so wanted to make sure it was safe to change to 3.09 first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactavish Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Just got my first DNA200, the LavaBox. I have seen this advise in another forum, and was looking for some opinions if it was worth changing a default setting. "there is one value I would make sure you change. The Evolv default for the soft battery cutoff is 3.09 in my honest opinion is too low and I have mine set to 3.2 (which is a value condoned by Brandon) just as if it was a standard 18650 battery. If you leave this low you can reduce the life of the battery (if your make and model battery doesn't like it). If you take my suggestion and set it to 3.2 volts the worst think that will happen is the battery will will power your device for a little shorter time than it possible could (we are not talking much time here) but your battery will love you for it and live to a ripe old age." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 I changed mine to 3.09 as recommended and the battery performance is so much better now, I've not seen the weak battery warning and I had got it down to 19%.I'll trust to people's advice that it's safe to have that setting, so I suppose it comes down to whether you want the device to last longer between recharges or whether you want the battery to last fro longer for swapping it. Considering the price of lipo batteries I'll go for longer times before recharges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Yea change it to 3.09 Evolv even said actually 3.00 is OK but to use 3.09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 scoopy said:Yea change it to 3.09 Evolv even said actually 3.00 is OK but to use 3.09Done and not hitting weak battery till 14% now Will have to run the battery analyser on it when I've got some spare time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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