Battery life [was: Re: Can the Freerunner now be charged with 1 or with 2 Amp ?]
Joerg Reisenweber
joerg at openmoko.org
Tue Jun 24 20:09:17 CEST 2008
Am Di 24. Juni 2008 schrieb Yorick Moko:
> It is known that the way you charge a battery influences the lifetime.
> Have there been any tests as to which is the "best" way to charge the
> freerunner?
Nope, didn't find the time to do the expected >500 charge/discharge cycles ;-)
Honestly, this is nothing FR or OM specific. Considerations valid for all
LiIon batteries apply here as well.
AFAIK, it's much more important not to push the last electron into the battery
that might fit in here, than to charge with lower current. Some notebooks
allegedly have a "treat battery nice" option, that stops charging at
~75%..90%. You could do this by adjusting the Vbat-max setting of PMU. Til
now, nobody cared about it yet.
cheers
jOERG
PS: have a Nokia with a LiIon accu that's 7 Years old now, 100% uptime. Still
is good for 70% of initial capacity. So yes, obviously LiIon *can* have
longer live than just 2 years.
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