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Originally Posted by banzaiwolfe
From what I understand, you only want to fully discharge once in awhile with li-ion, for the purpose of calibration. Otherwise you want to stay with charging before it's dead.
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Agreed...you want to charge fully and drain fully first couple of charges to calibrate...after that, li-ion should not have a noticeable memory effect, and you can charge as desired...just bear in mind that rechargeable batteries have a finite lifecycle, so the more times you charge, the more miles you put on the battery...ie I charge when my battery gets down to 10-20%...if I know I'm going out and need juice, I'll add some earlier than that....but I would not routinely top it off from 50% up to 70% just because I was sitting somewhere and had a charger handy...