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Old 12-22-2011, 08:32 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by frankz View Post
Many Lithium based battery devices misreport the charge level intentionally, so the unit's 0% reading / automatic shutdown is really 10-15% of actual battery left.

I'd be surprised if any name-brand device let you actually discharge to literal zero.
That's interesting, I wasn't aware of that, but it makes sense. Thank you for that info. I did let mine get to the point of automatic shutdown a couple of times and worried a bit about it, but going by that it seems like it should be fine.
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