Citizen Eco drive battery is not same with standard watch battery. Citizen Ecodrive battery is using eco drive technology, which means it can be recharge by light. This battery technology convert light energy to electrical energy which is used to power the citizen ecodrive watch and store it which means this battery relies on solar energy. Sometimes when we in the dark place we notice that our citizen eco drive watch is losing time or has stopped completely. It means we should recharge our this battery.
How to recharge Citizen Eco Drive battery?
Unlike non-eco drive watches, citizen eco-drive watch use solar panel or this battery as its source of power that is mean there is no actual battery. However, at some kind of condition we need to recharge this battery. First, we should understand how our eco drive watch works, if our eco drive watch completely stop running or it is losing time we need to recharge. Actually, recharging can be done by reveal it to light. Direct sunlight is much better. After we reveal it to direct sunlight, we have to know the amount of the time that needed to recharge this battery. The amount of the time to recharge this battery are varies depend on what is our Movement Calibre Number of our eco drive watch. Approximately, time to recharge our this battery in direct sunlight with cloudy weather is 9 hours and sunny weather is 3.5 hours, but for complete or precise time recharge, we can visit eco drive website or look at our manual. After full recharge, we should reset our eco drive watch to work properly.
Replace our Citizen Eco Drive battery
Be careful using these batteries. He was very easily influenced by the atmosphere. Actually, there is battery inside our eco drive watch however this battery is a secondary battery if our main this battery is dead or need to be recharge. Nevertheless, how about if our main this battery is needed to be recharges and our eco drive watch still lose power? That is means our secondary battery is needed to be replaced. To get replacement there are a lot of shop that offer our secondary this battery. We should make sure that the replacement battery is match with our eco drive watch model. A thing that we need to replace our this battery is thin-blade knife. First thing to replace our secondary this battery is turn our eco drive watch over, so we can see circular panel on the back of the watch. Then insert a tip of our thin blade knife into the gap where the watch body connect to the panel. Lift it slowly until we can see circular battery and use tip of our thin blade knife to slide the small metal latch that covers the Citizen Eco drive battery. Remove the this battery but remember where the battery facing up, because we have to replace it with same position. Replace it and then slide back the metal latch and replace the back cover to its position and press it firmly. Then we got a new this battery.
Citizen Eco Drive battery life expectation
We curious about this battery lifespan. Actually, there is different lifespan for this battery in one eco-drive watch and another. Forexample, we can take eco drive blue angel watch, its battery can last about 10 years or if we can search it through internet, citizen state that this battery will last more than 10 years but citizen Europe state that after 20 years the capacity remain 80% from its initial capacity.
Citizen Eco Drive battery is friendly environment
This battery, which commonly made from titanium lithium ion, is friendly environment, because we do not have to replace this battery for 10 to 20 years. Non-eco drive watch use silver oxide battery technology that is efficient when squeezing the last bit of electricity, but they are non-friendly environmental because it is hard to recycle it as well as need a lot of energy to recycle it. These battery are extremely elegant and is suitable for professionals. when you use this watch, you like cool people. And the last feature yet important is additional light on Citizen Blue Angels Skyhawk. Therefore, if we want to use friendly environment yet last long battery we should choose Citizen Eco drive battery.
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