• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Lithium ion batteries have a sweet spot of around 60 to 80 percent charge where very little wear takes place to charge or discharge. If you could keep it to just that 20-30 percent usage in that range it would pretty much last ten thousand cycles.

    Charging to 100 or discharging below 50-60 percent accelerates the wear on the battery, but it is still much better than the wear rate on lead acid batteries that are cycled in a similar manner.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      9 hours ago

      Batteries also need to be balanced. If you constantly keep your battery packs in that small range they’ll drift out of balance over time.

      You should charge to 100% occasionally to allow the BMS to balance all the packs.