| snidely 2005-05-19, 11:52 am |
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A couple times in the past couple years I thought an SE LI Polymer
battery had died since it wouldn't take a charge. I left it on the
charger for several hours and suddenly it began charging and now works
fine. This was in a back up phone that was in the drawer.
I am a heavy user (1500 - 1500 mo.) and keep my 600 mah battery on
the charger whenever i'm in the car. At home I put it in the charger
if it appears to have less than a 75% charge. This has been going on
for 2.5 years or more and just recently seem to be losing a very little
available talk time. I would guess there are at least 2 or 3 "recharges
to full" a day. Total over the years would be well over 2000! I almost
never let it get below 1/2 full.
I have read elsewhere it is not the total number of charges, but the
total of how much juice you have added over time. Eg. Recharge to full
ten times when it is 90% full is equal to one recharge from when the
battery is at 0%.
...mike
Notan Wrote:
> Ablang wrote:-
>
> The Apple iPod site recommends charging them up fully and
> discharging them at least once a month, even if they're not used.
>
> And they last for only about 400 charge cycles. I wonder if
> all Li-Ion batteries behave that way?-
>
> Yup.
>
> A charge cycle is a charge cycle, whether it's full, half, or
> whatever.
>
> Notan
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