{"id":451,"date":"2023-04-06T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/?p=451"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:35:21","slug":"partial-charging-is-a-healthy-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/archives\/451","title":{"rendered":"Partial charging is a healthy habit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One particularly persistent battery myth is that you need to occasionally fully discharge and recharge to erase \u201cbattery memory.\u201d This couldn\u2019t be more wrong for lithium-ion batteries. It\u2019s a leftover myth from lead-acid cells, and it\u2019s pretty undesirable to charge your modern smartphone in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Partial charging is just fine for lithium-ion batteries and can have some positive benefits for cell longevity. To understand why it\u2019s important to appreciate how a battery charges. Li-ion batteries draw constant current and operate at a lower voltage when closer to empty. This voltage gradually increases as the cell charges up, leveling off at around a 70% charge before the current begins to fall until the capacity is full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One particularly persistent battery myth is that you need to occasionally fully discharge and recharge to erase \u201cbattery memory.\u201d This couldn\u2019t be more wrong for lithium-ion batteries. It\u2019s a leftover myth from lead-acid cells, and it\u2019s pretty undesirable to charge your modern smartphone in this way. Partial charging is just fine for lithium-ion batteries and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteriesglobal.co.uk\/batterynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}