Battery Fully Charged in Less than 10 Minutes?

colintheguy · July 8th, 2009, 00:45

I'm a bit of a science and engineering enthusiast and as such I like to keep up to date on some cool developing technologies. One thing I ran into a while back was an article talking about lithium ion batteries and a new development by researchers that would allow cell phones to be fully charged in ~10 seconds (as in totally dead to max power). I thought that was super cool as I use a laptop for school and I never even thought about the potential application to airsoft. Take that 9 hour charge and turn it into 10 minutes? YES PLEASE. My Xbox controller take twice that long. The best part? The crystalline coating could likely be produced at extremely low prices! I lost the original article, which was far more detailed but I thought some of the geeks on here (all of us) might like to read this.

http://www.boston.com/cars/newsandre...ies_excit.html

L473ncy · July 8th, 2009, 01:33

Yeah. Only thing is the amount of heat generated from a charge like that (as commented in the article).

Seems pretty cool though and I wouldn't be surprised if this takes off in 10 years or so and we start seeing this in Airsoft/RC/hobby applications in 15-20 years.

Gunny_McSmith · July 8th, 2009, 02:08

They are planing on using that for futur electric station for future electric cars, insteD of "changing the wuole battery method" but ya you need alot of curent for that = dangerous!

coach · July 8th, 2009, 09:13

9 hours? really? I already charge AEG batteries in about 30 minutes.

Kingsix · July 8th, 2009, 11:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Palucol

They are planing on using that for futur electric station for future electric cars, insteD of "changing the wuole battery method" but ya you need alot of curent for that = dangerous!

I smell Gas stations capitalizing on this and becoming charging stations. Later on in the future we will be complaining about electricity prices...

incrediboy729 · July 8th, 2009, 14:09

My old astroflight charger can charge batteries in ten minutes. it puts out 4.5amps which is pretty hard on most packs. Ni-CD Sub-C packs can handle it pretty well but mini NIMH packs will wear out with that much amps after a while. Not to mention the heat they get. Nicads stay pretty cool through the whole process.

AngelusNex · July 8th, 2009, 14:17

Airsoft batteries only take 1 - 1 1/2 hours tops to charge to full. If you have a good charger.

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July 8th, 2009, 00:45	#1
colintheguy Trader rating Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ottawa	Battery Fully Charged in Less than 10 Minutes? I'm a bit of a science and engineering enthusiast and as such I like to keep up to date on some cool developing technologies. One thing I ran into a while back was an article talking about lithium ion batteries and a new development by researchers that would allow cell phones to be fully charged in ~10 seconds (as in totally dead to max power). I thought that was super cool as I use a laptop for school and I never even thought about the potential application to airsoft. Take that 9 hour charge and turn it into 10 minutes? YES PLEASE. My Xbox controller take twice that long. The best part? The crystalline coating could likely be produced at extremely low prices! I lost the original article, which was far more detailed but I thought some of the geeks on here (all of us) might like to read this. http://www.boston.com/cars/newsandre...ies_excit.html

July 8th, 2009, 01:33	#2
L473ncy Trader rating Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: 11-30-24-1W5	Yeah. Only thing is the amount of heat generated from a charge like that (as commented in the article). Seems pretty cool though and I wouldn't be surprised if this takes off in 10 years or so and we start seeing this in Airsoft/RC/hobby applications in 15-20 years. __________________ ಠ_ಠLess QQ more Pew Pew READY TO >> RACE

July 8th, 2009, 02:08	#3
Gunny_McSmith a.k.a. Palucol Trader rating Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: MTL	They are planing on using that for futur electric station for future electric cars, insteD of "changing the wuole battery method" but ya you need alot of curent for that = dangerous! __________________

July 8th, 2009, 09:13	#4
coach aka coachster Trader rating Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: T dot	9 hours? really? I already charge AEG batteries in about 30 minutes.

July 8th, 2009, 14:09	#6
incrediboy729 Trader rating Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: California, USA	My old astroflight charger can charge batteries in ten minutes. it puts out 4.5amps which is pretty hard on most packs. Ni-CD Sub-C packs can handle it pretty well but mini NIMH packs will wear out with that much amps after a while. Not to mention the heat they get. Nicads stay pretty cool through the whole process. __________________

July 8th, 2009, 14:17	#7
AngelusNex formerly Sepulcrum Trader rating Join Date: May 2007 Location: Kingston,ON, aka Funkasia	Airsoft batteries only take 1 - 1 1/2 hours tops to charge to full. If you have a good charger.

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