LiFePO4 Winter Care?
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Hello, my car is now back in it's usual state of disassembly. I'm going to oust the battery and store in the warm. I believe the self discharge rate is reasonably slow, but don't want to risk it dropping below a recoverable level, equally I don't want to leave it connected to a charger all the time. What's everyone else doing?

The little lithiums lose very little over time . I put it on the charge once every three weeks whilst i am doing a job or two. An hour later and it has done all the charging and is only dribbling a charge through ( so my guess is over 90 %)

Just an update on this. I check the voltage each month and gone from 13.2 to 13.1 since September.

I poked the battery a few times over last year. Charged it around May, then promptly forgot about it. Saw it today and readout was blank. Bugger, killed it for sure. Threw the charger on it and it's now showing signs of life at 12.8v. Fingers crossed