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Originally Posted by dkl
(subjecting it to all the unnecessary charge/discharge cycles). Personally, I will only want to recharge a battery when necessary in order to prolong its life span, thus I'm not sure that I want this automatic "recharging" function.
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Current lithium ion batteries actually do BETTER with frequent "topping off". In the days of nickel cadmium batteries, and even some of the technologies after those, you needed to deep cycle them (full discharge followed by full charge) in order to prolong battery life, and avoid memory effect. That is not the case with most current batteries.