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Old February 16th, 2006, 07:59 PM
phusion phusion is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Febs
That's the way you're supposed to charge a lithium battery. They have no memory effect; you don't need to let them run down before charging.
But the bad side of that is Li-Polys only have 175-300 charge cycles or about 1% loss of charge power per month (No wonder everyone's batteries are dying). Li-Ions can get 500-1000! cycles per battery, but there's that lil' bit about them being more liable to explode if mishandled. Oh yeah, they're also about 2X as expensive as Li-Polys.

I think I would rather have a removable pack made up of AA Ni-MHs. Cheap, reliable and easy to replace.
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