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Just a heads up, it’s very bad for the battery to keep it in a discharged state for any longer than absolutely necessary. Batteries are best stored at about 50%
by FearlessNebula 5y ago
Just a heads up, it’s very bad for the battery to keep it in a discharged state for any longer than absolutely necessary. Batteries are best stored at about 50%
- wpietri 5y agoGet thee behind me, Satan. The machine is there for me; I am not there for the machine. If tending to my productivity and mental health means replacing a battery every second year instead of every third, then I'm going to pick me over a $35 battery.
- imwillofficial 5y agoWhat a weird offensively worded reply.
- wpietri 5y agoIt's a literary reference about rebuking a tempter, one famous enough to have its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_behind_me,_Satan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_behind_me,_Satan If someone is trying to get away from something with addictive characteristics, the last thing they need is somebody coming by to make that harder. The presumption that I don't know anything about batteries is bad enough. Disregarding what I'm up to is worse. It's like somebody talking about how they're quitting drinking and popping up to say, "But studies show health benefits to drinking!" While true, it's well known and incredibly unhelpful. And as the replies show, his unhelpful intervention could well be wrong to boot.
- imwillofficial 5y agoStill weird, still offensive.
- wpietri 5y agoYour opinion is duly noted. And congrats on using HN for a whole year.
- imwillofficial 5y agoAlso, weirdly hostile. Also, perhaps I’ve only been using this account for a year? Open your mind to new possibilities my friend.
- VygmraMGVl 5y agoThis is true for NiCd batteries, not for Li-ion. In general, LiIon degrades at a rate roughly linear to state of charge when not in use.
- Shog9 5y agoIIRC, the danger with storing lithium batteries at a low SoC is that they do have some small amount of self-discharge and can eventually drop to levels that cause severe degradation - and potentially catastrophic failure when next charged.
- colechristensen 5y agoThis depends entirely on battery chemistry and is different for each one. Lithium ion batteries want to be stored at low charge and cold. As long as they don’t self discharge below a certain minimum (at which point they are dead forever) you minimize degradation by keeping charge as low as possible. No need to be obsessive about it because the difference between 5% and 50% isn’t much. Other lithium chemistries want to be stored completely charged, NiCd wants to be about half. Temperature is usually worse than charge state anyway.