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Old 07-19-03, 10:59 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally posted by JakeRich
If you keep the battery above 80%, you can run 10,000+ charge cycles. If you let it drop below 20% every time, the battery will fail in about 500 cycles. So, assuming linearity, each full discharge takes off about 20+ cycles of lesser discharge.
a 20% (100-80) recharge is kind of ridiculous....if you take that 10,000 figure and compensate for this by dividing by 5, you get 2,000 cycles. therefore a one-time 100% discharge really only takes off about 3 additional full battery charges.
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