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Originally Posted by Soldim
From the article:
Fortunately, most batteries tend to last more than 15 cycles now-a-days
(they mention a battery-charge lasts for a week, but not for what application that is....)
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No, they said that the CURRENT batteries lose power after about 150 charge cycles. But with Lithium Polymer (lipo) cells that depends on the discharge rate, charge rate, how fully you charge it, how long it is stored at full charge, and how low you discharge it.
Exceed the safe limits in any one of the categories and the life of the battery may be as low as a single charge/discharge cycle.
With current lipo technology I can take a pack and fully charge it in under 20 minutes, fully discharge it in about 3 minutes, and still get over a 100 a cycles of life.
But if I charge slower, discharge slower, not fully charge, and limit level of discharge, I can get many hundreds of cycles. And this is what they do with many consumer devices.