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Originally Posted by Aydan
That shouls not actually be necessary. As soon as the charge controller has finished stage 3 of the charge process, the battery has a known state of "full". Repeatedly plugging in the charger will only reduce the lifetime of the battery. This will also not calibrate the usable charge of the battery, as soon as you discharge the battery near empty, the gage will be off again, becaus it "recalibrates" on the empty state.
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Aydan
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But the battery meter gets it wrong and thus thinks the battery is at a different state then it really is. So as the battery drains, the meter shows this at a different rate then it really happening. Thus, the calibration which is needed to fix this.