tutis
Well-Known Member
Charge cycles are not counted by the number of times you plug in… it’s simply [total kWh charged into the battery] / [net battery capacity].Daveo4v, a question here for you:
Since the above will affect total charges during battery life, how does the utilization of 1 & 2 above, which will naturally reduce the number of charges affect battery life when comparing 1 & 2 above to the total number of charges. Do we know the battery degradation trade off or are we just assuming it is less degradation of the battery to charge cycle more times using less through put to the battery?
- less full charging = more battery life…(don’t charge to 100%)
- less full ‘drain’ = more battery life…(don’t run it down to 10% or less all the time)
For example, if one charges 4X to 100% instead of 5X to 80%, the result is one extra charging cycle at 80% versus to 100%. Over a 1000 charging history to 80%, one will charge 200 times more than at 100%. Just curious.
Thus charging 5 times 10% is the same as charging 1 time 50%.
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