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maca2 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: Battery Charging a Mio 168 |
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Looking at some posts I see that it is recommended not to let the Mio run completely out of juice so if I want to keep my battery in the best possible state can you just tell me this.
If I use it when I'm out on my bike it often gets down to 15-25% charge before I get home & recharge it or use my battery extender.
Most of the time it goes down to about 60-70% before I recharge at home.
Looking at the above usage am I making the battery life shorter using it as I do ?.
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neil01 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 06, 2005 Posts: 902 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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To worry that how you are doing (as in using the device) may be damaging your battery, is a bit like worrying about driving a car and wearing the tyres out!
Yes there may be optimal ways to treat a battery, and yes they MAY make a small diferrence to its life, but the product was bought to use, and use it you should. If that means that sometimes it is used at diferrent levels of charge/discharge that's life.
From what I understand, it is the allowing it to completely discharge and leaving it in that state which causes the biggest (and avoidable) problem. Rather than small changes to a batteries life; you can reduce it from years to months. |
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maca2 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks
I never worry about the tyres on my car as I always make sure it's on the trailer everytime I drive it .
I guess I have always been told to run batterys down to avoid the memory effect, memory effect, memory effect, sorry did I just say that I forget, but I now understand this only applies to Ni Cads.
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neil01 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well after all, who wants fixed goalposts! |
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