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Originally Posted by rkomar
I assume you were writing in response to me, since no one else brought up Google.
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Yes, you are the guilty party
I'm glad you weren't advocating deep discharging Lithiums. When you mentioned few discharge cycles and then conditioning, I did assume that was what you meant.
When I did a quick Google on the terms you provided, just about everything that I looked at was some non-authoritative source recommending at least some amount of deep discharge for Lithiums.
The only authoritative sources that I find that cautiously recommend such a procedure are specifically targetted at battery packs with built in charge indicator circuitry that may need periodic "calibration" if the battery is often shallowly discharged.
From what I know of the batteries used in these readers, coupled with the fact that users are very unlikely to repeatedly shallow discharge the battery, I doubt that any such "calibration" is needed.
As we both agree on, deep discharging Lithiums is a bad idea.
Joe