To help protect your Pounce drive and maximize its lifespan, please follow these recommendations:
- Use a small course and keep line tension as light as possible. If you notice the drive slowing down or performance declining, stop and reduce the course size. A course that's too large or line tension that's too tight makes the drive work much harder than intended, which can lead to premature wear and may require replacement before the end of its normal lifespan.
- Charge the drive overnight. At the end of each day, stop using the drive and plug it in so it's fully charged and ready for your next play session.
- Do not rely on keeping it plugged in during use to charge the battery. The drive consumes power faster than the charger can replace it. When it's plugged in during operation, the charging system cannot properly detect when the battery voltage has dropped too low. This can allow the battery to discharge below its safe minimum voltage, which may cause permanent battery damage.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The manual states that you can plug the drive in to charge while you're using it. While this is true - it is not advised.
This interferes with the programming that stops the drive when the voltage drops to a certain level to protect the battery from being over-discharged.
Pounce uses a LiPo battery - they can become permanently damaged if the voltage drops below the minimum voltage.
When it's constantly plugged in - we have learned that:
1 - it does not charge at the same rate as power is being used - so the voltage will still drop
2 - it does not sense that the voltage has dropped and so it's possible to over-discharge the battery to the point of failure.
How long would each charge of the battery be expected to last?
The battery should last long enough to use it all day before recharging.
Please note that damage resulting from improper use or battery damage caused by deep discharge is not covered under warranty. The warranty covers defects in materials and workmanship only.