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MonMotha:
If you have this hooked directly to the battery, then it will interfere with the battery charging operation if you try to use it while the battery wants to charge. This is because the charger has to limit the input current to the battery and does so by monitoring said current, but the current your LED setup draws (which is substantial) will be included in that measurement even though it doesn't go to the battery. This will, at minimum, cause the battery to charge more slowly than normal, and it could in fact result in the battery not charging at all (and perhaps even continuing to discharge) if the LED setup draws more current than the programmed battery charge current.
You should either turn off or disconnect (better) the LED setup while charging the battery, or you'll need to find the battery rail on the other side of the charger and tap in there, so the charger won't include your LED current in the charge current measurements.
Also, ensure that you never let the battery pack become fully depleted. The charger circuit is often responsible for cutting power before the battery goes completely kaput, but since you're on the battery directly, that won't happen. Fully discharging a Li-Ion battery tends to damage its capacity pretty badly. Moving to the system power side of the charger would fix this, too, but finding that net may not be the easiest task.
Bender:
Again, thanks for the heads up, I can see what you mean, I was wondering how the battery would know when to shut off and assumes the the LED screen had the largest draw and it was made to shut down for that, so I thought I'd be ok
With everything on it does seem to still charge the battery(and stop charging when it's full) I don't know it it's any slower or not
also the light is hooked to a switch that shuts it off when the dvd player is off
Right now I'm tapped into the contacts on the PCB where the battery connects, but not directly to the battery
Seems like the dvd drive would draw a similar amount of power as the LED's put that's an uneducated guess