Recipe for Li-Ion battery longevity

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 04:59, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> Wikipedia has some good info on the different battery types.
>
> IIRC, it recommended not deep cycling for li-ion since they don't
> suffer from memory issues and they do get slightly stressed from a
> deep discharge.
>
> I referenced that quite a while ago ... it could recommend the exact
> opposite now :)
>
The advice from Acer when I bought this one was that you should use the 
battery fairly often.  Use it long enough to use most of the charge, but 
ideally stop at around 10% before recharging.  They claim that this is the 
most efficient way of keeping it healthy.

Anne
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