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All batteries - lithium included - will have some self-discharge. This is an artefact of chemistry and of construction. We do see come batteries marketed as "long life" - their self-discharge will be small, lasting 10yrs or more. All rechargable batteries are considered to be *not* long life - lithium cells are quoted asa 1% per month / 10% per year. Importantly, if a lithium discharges below a certain threshold - 2v per cell - then they are considered to be unsafe to be recharged.

Thus a typical suggestion is to charge them at least once per year or two.

Some manufactures stipulate more often - for example, DJI drone batteries have a self-regulation mechanism which discharges sooner, so need to be charged about once per 6 months.

Note - new gadgets dont often come with full-charge in their batteries. This is primarily for safety reasons, because charged battery can let out the magic if it gets bumped a bit hard. And during the manufacture of the battery it wont get charged up completely, and the manufacturer of the gadget also wont charge the battery. So you will want to do it sooner, rather than later.

So that we can use the search feature this thread in the future...

Vent plug size M10 x 1.5

A few days later another good session. Good wind and waves - 4.2m and freewave. Great jumping waves this day.

Kite bar found at Murray's Beach (Golden Beach) on Sunday 6th July

72 litre vs 92 litre - custom "copper" colour

The wind-meter at South Channel, typically gave a good representation of the wind at Rye front beach. Except in a Northerly in summer, where the wind often didn't make it to the waters-edge.

Another request.



Allowing "Enter" to submit forms is exceptionally annoying because accidentally not pressing the shift-key before enter, causes messages to be delivered.

And in the case of personal-messages, there isn't any ability to edit messages.