On 24 dec 2012, at 20:06, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2012, at 1:26 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> On Dec 24, 2012, at 11:01, John Stalberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Low cycle count should not be something to aim for by the user since it >>> conflicts with my first recomendation. >> >> A cycle is a complete discharge and charge. If you use your iPad and charge >> it to 100% every night and you use is 10% a day, after ten days that is one >> cycle. >> >> I've never heard that the heat of charging damages Li-ion batteries. > > So I guess the bottom line is that I can charge my iPad as often as I like, > such as every night, and it won't affect the number of complete > charge/discharge cycles. Yes. As long as you charge it often enough. How many weeks at most apart between charging depends upon how fast the battery discharge when not being used and amount of charge it got last time (or more precisely current amount of charge). If you're concern have been 'too often or not', you can relax the whole thing. > > In my case, at least so far, I have not been using the iPad very much, so it > would be a nuisance to charge it every night. Hopefully there is no problem > with only charging it every few days, or even just once a week, if I'm only > using 5-10% of the charge per day. > - Problems arise when the voltage drops too low. Well under the level were the device auto-shutdown because of empty battery. I would call the polymer batteries of today as being surprisingly long lived and durable considering the amounts of work they do. Sometimes there are faults but if your battery will age without any such problem, it probably going to fulfill your expectations and more? Just use it and enjoy. They have never been better these mobile aimed batteries for handheld devices. // John_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
