I am doing research on best practices for my lithium batteries and lifepo4 powerstation. There’s some conflicting opinions and variation for cycle numbers.

Will leaving my things plugged in at 100% hurt it more than constantly unplugging at 80% and replugging at 20%?

  • monobot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is the dilema since we use lithium batteries. And if it was truth we would be certain of it.

    I believe that there is a difference, but I think it is in the range of few percents of capacity lost per year, which means you will be using 60% of the capacity. That’s capacity you get after 10+ years of use.

    We all know batteries don’t last that long anyway.

    All that said I do keep laptop on 80% ¯_(ツ)_/¯
    since I rarely use it on battery.