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Originally posted by kmcclary
If you totally discharge them (like many teams do) you'll only get 180 cycles out of them, but you if you only discharge them 30%, you get 1200 cycles!!! That's over 650% better life expectancy!
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Actually, you're getting twice the lifetime power out of the battery in the partial discharge scenario you described.
Since you are only using 30% of the power in the second situation, you have to multiply the 1200 cycles by 30%, which makes it the equivalent of 360 full cycles, or double the deep-cycle lifetime power, which is still substantial.
Two other obvious advantages of keeping the batteries charged are that they put out more power when they are fully charged, and you know you have charged batteries to use.