# Air Battery life

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/air-battery-life/22060>\
**Category:** Tempest Owners\
**Created:** [August 15, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/air-battery-life/22060 "2023-08-15T22:42:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![atkinson.jk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@atkinson.jk](https://community.tempest.earth/u/atkinson.jk)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/air-battery-life/22060/1 "2023-08-15T22:42:19Z")

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So my Air unit seems to be chewing through batteries lately - I’ve noticed the life getting shorter and shorter. This last time was 2 weeks and the batteries were all 50% original voltage… Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![iladyman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/iladyman/32/2305_2.png) [@iladyman](https://community.tempest.earth/u/iladyman)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/air-battery-life/22060/2 "2023-08-16T12:06:34Z")

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There have been a few discussions with the same issue in the past. Here is one and there may be more if you search using the magnifying glass.

> [@AIR battery life mystery](https://community.tempest.earth/t/air-battery-life-mystery/3844):
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> Hi there I have one of the early AIR’s that has been in the field since about Sept 2017. At the the time, I installed the recommended Ultimate Lithium batteries. The 1st set of lithiums lasted over a year … in fact I replaced them around November 2018 even though the original batteries were still behaving just fine. The 2nd set of lithium’s lasted about 4-5 months and the AIR went offline suddenly in March 2019. Today (July 2019) I observed that the 3rd set of lithiums are in decline … ba…

cheers Ian 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/3X/9/5/954d64c24c1612a76fabaaa3298be78bac443b7f.png) [@system](https://community.tempest.earth/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/air-battery-life/22060/3 "2025-02-06T12:07:23Z")

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