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Originally Posted by ratinox
Bear in mind that the 300-500 cycles life span is a conservative estimate based on near 100% discharge each cycle. If don't let the battery go below about 50% each cycle then you should get 1200-1500 cycles. So let's say you're recharging twice a week at no lower than 50% DoD per cycle. At 1200 cycles that's 600 weeks or about 11 years as a rough worst case estimate.
(Kudos to John F for referencing Battery University. Good source of factual information.)
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Just to make sure I understand, 1200-1500 is half charges (according to battery U), which equates to 600-750 full charges?
And that is the 50% number. if you recharge at 25%, you are at 500-625 full charges, and if you charge at 10%, you are at 375-470 full charge cycles.
The 10% number is interesting, to me, in regards to the Oasis: a lot of short charges because people are saying they put it in the cover when they set it down.