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Originally Posted by Mr. Mik
If you want to regularly charge your battery, then you must stay far away from the 100% full mark, or you will destroy it in short order. You might get temporarily improved mileage, but your battery will be toast in a couple of years or less. ?
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I tend to disagree, that is as long as you trickle charge to the full mark and avoid excessive heat. I figure I have cycled my packs at least 600 times in the last two years and haven't seen any noticeable loss in battery capacity. Out of those 600 times the packs had to have been well into the 90 percent range since I was using a dumb charger set at 175 volts putting out a maximum of 700mA (for two packs).
My current charger (no pun intended) is of the meanwell variety and stays right at 350mA per battery until the pack voltage hits 169 - 170 volts. It is bound to hit into the 90 percent if I leave it plugged in for too long.
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Mark
2000 Silver Insight, #5550
Pioneer P3900MP CD/MP3 4 X Polk Audio 6.5", Stealth Box
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