Is the main body (of roborock s6) supposed to stay always at the charging station? What are the best practices for the battery life? Thanks in advance.
Usually, we suggest customers put device on dock all the time if it is used every week. After battery is fully charged, only mother board of device is charged and customers don't need worry battery is fully charged for a long time and may decrease the lifespan. Besides,it doesn't cost much electricity even if it is put on dock for a long time.
The device will turn off auto without any operation after 24 hours if it is not on dock and customers have to manually hold power button to turn on it, which is not convenient if it is often used.
Of course, we still suggest customers turn off device if it will not be used for several weeks.
When the robovac is in its dock, it always charges to 100% and keeps it at that level even when the vac may not be used for many days. For Li-ion batteries (and I assume thats whats being used here) this is not good. Its how you kill the batteries in your laptop every 2 year by having them on the charger all the time. You want to store them at 80% or less ideally. But just 90% is a lot better than 100.
I can probably fix this for myself by using a smart socket and have home assistant kill power to the dock when the battery reaches 80%, unless a scheduled clean is coming up. But it would be useful if roborock did this automatically, charge to 80 or 90% unless a scheduled run was coming up in the next hour or so, or unless a full charge was requested. Im pretty sure that would help a lot with battery longevity and it will even reduce fire hazard.
I'm also concerned about my Roborock S5 to be charged to max all the time, it usually use only 10% during cleaning, right now I'm solving it with a smart socket disabling it when it's not in use.
Maybe developers could implement a feature like in laptops when you select to what percentage battery is charged to maximize battery longevity or charge it to max?
Usually, we suggest customers put device on dock all the time if it is used every week. After battery is fully charged, only mother board of device is charged and customers don't need worry battery is fully charged for a long time and may decrease the lifespan. Besides,it doesn't cost much electricity even if it is put on dock for a long time.
The device will turn off auto without any operation after 24 hours if it is not on dock and customers have to manually hold power button to turn on it, which is not convenient if it is often used.
Of course, we still suggest customers turn off device if it will not be used for several weeks.
When the robovac is in its dock, it always charges to 100% and keeps it at that level even when the vac may not be used for many days. For Li-ion batteries (and I assume thats whats being used here) this is not good. Its how you kill the batteries in your laptop every 2 year by having them on the charger all the time. You want to store them at 80% or less ideally. But just 90% is a lot better than 100.
I can probably fix this for myself by using a smart socket and have home assistant kill power to the dock when the battery reaches 80%, unless a scheduled clean is coming up. But it would be useful if roborock did this automatically, charge to 80 or 90% unless a scheduled run was coming up in the next hour or so, or unless a full charge was requested. Im pretty sure that would help a lot with battery longevity and it will even reduce fire hazard.
I'm also concerned about my Roborock S5 to be charged to max all the time, it usually use only 10% during cleaning, right now I'm solving it with a smart socket disabling it when it's not in use.
Maybe developers could implement a feature like in laptops when you select to what percentage battery is charged to maximize battery longevity or charge it to max?
*About roborock s6