detector/battery problem

[mlayers]

I have the White's DFX and I bought me a new rechargeable battery. Every time I get my detector out the battery is dead and I have to recharge it before I can go out. Dose anyone else has this problem or is my detector going bad.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Cry Of The Eagle: History And Legends Of The Cherokee Indians And Their Buried Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[Jim in Idaho]

I'll assume you have a NiMH battery pack. They self-discharge. they go down to 80% in a month. Since they start out at 11.6, or thereabouts, in a couple of months they're too low. If the battery pack is older, it's worse. Just give the battery a topping charge before heading out.
Jim

 

[airscapes]

you need to condition new rechargeables by charghign draining and recharging fully about 3-4 time until they reach full capacity. However that does not effect self discharge.. Lithium Ion seem to self discharge faster than NiMh batteries do from my experience.. run long on a fresh charge to discharge but sitting they go dead faster.

 

[finderskeepers]

I too have a DFX. I purchased a Li-ion pack from these guys...The Most Powerful Longest Lasting Lithium-ion Batt Packs For Metal Detectors and am EXTREMELY happy with it. Stone dead to fully charged in just 2 hours. I stopped keeping track but was consistently getting 40+ hours of hunting from a charge. My experience is quite different from Airscapes...I pulled the battery when I was done for the season in November and re-installed in April. It only dropped from 11.6 to 11.4 volts.

 

[airscapes]

I was not talking about a specific battery, just that technologically in general.

 

[wvmountaindigger]

I too have a DFX. I purchased a Li-ion pack from these guys...The Most Powerful Longest Lasting Lithium-ion Batt Packs For Metal Detectors and am EXTREMELY happy with it. Stone dead to fully charged in just 2 hours. I stopped keeping track but was consistently getting 40+ hours of hunting from a charge. My experience is quite different from Airscapes...I pulled the battery when I was done for the season in November and re-installed in April. It only dropped from 11.6 to 11.4 volts.

I feel the same as and have experienced the same as finderskeepers and would highly recommend. I noticed a vendor now selling the HP 3100 for 92.00.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

you need to condition new rechargeables by charghign draining and recharging fully about 3-4 time until they reach full capacity. However that does not effect self discharge.. Lithium Ion seem to self discharge faster than NiMh batteries do from my experience.. run long on a fresh charge to discharge but sitting they go dead faster.

Nah....Li-ion has a very low self-discharge rate. Do a little research. That's a big advantage of Li-Ion over NiMH, along with Li-Ion has very little "memory", and can be recharged at any state of charge without reducing the capacity.
Jim

 

[Jim in Idaho]

I feel the same as and have experienced the same as finderskeepers and would highly recommend. I noticed a vendor now selling the HP 3100 for 92.00.

I just bought one of his batteries and chargers. I was going to use it in the TDI S/L, but bought the 4 cell from "reidman", and will use the 3 cell for the GMT, and DFX. Supposedly, the 3 cell will give near 70 hours in the GMT. Probably near that in the DFX, too.
Jim