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Originally Posted by lkingston
They must have a very slow charger on it, I would agree. No doubt the battery itself could handle a much faster charge. The battery charge circuit may have been designed with a standard lead acid battery in mind, and then swapped out with a lithium ion one when they became available. 72 hours to charge a battery that last six or seven hours seems indefensible!
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I’d bet they didn’t put a charging circuit in it at all. They just put a trickle charging voltage through the battery and left it at that. At 72 hours, it’s a third of an amp. Anything up to an amp is pretty standard trickle circuit power.