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Portable Power Station Parameters 8: Cycle Life

Cycle Life

This blog is about the Cycle Life of portable power stations.

The cycle life determines the number of charge/discharge cycles that the battery can experience before it reaches a predetermined energy capacity or other performance criteria. The cycle life of Li-ion batteries is affected significantly by the depth of discharge. The depth of discharge is the amount of a battery’s storage capacity that is utilized since it is originally calculated by the manufacturer based on the specific charge and discharge conditions.

What factors affect the cycle life of lithium-ion batteries?

Lithium-ion batteries can have between 500 to 10,000 cycles.

  1. Use the device on-battery as little as possible.
  2. The same as 1. but from a different perspective: Don’t use the battery to its extremes.
  3. Get familiar with the settings on your phone-OS that considerably impact battery life.

If you want to know more about Cycle Life of batteries, you can click here.

18650 lithium ion battery charged at 4.2V and discharged at 3.2V VS an identical battery charged at 4.1V and safely discharged at 2.5V, which will have more cycle life?

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