More on Rechargeable Batteries

As I was prowling through the web, I found this site from Matt Blaze who have done some extensive testing and talked about reliability of batteries.  The heat produced during charging destroy the batteries in time and if the charging temp is too high, our batteries will have a short life.  

 

I was thinking, in the long run, does it really matter? Does it matter if the battery were suppose to charge 1000 cycle, and we are only able to charge 900 cycle? By the time, the battery reach say 700 cycle, the market would already have new and much higher capacity batteries, and the batteries price would be cheaper.  In addition, by 700 cycle, the capacity of the battery would have drop significantly and where previously one could get say 100 shots off, now can only get say 60 shots.. by then we would be looking for a new battery. 

 

Nothing last forever anyway…

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