LiFePo4 battery users

[sternwake]

If I counted 5% depth of discharges, as cycles, then I have many thousands of cycles on my lead acid battery.

I estimate I have about 1100 deep cycles to 60% SOC or less on the battery.

Lithium, I don;t know how to quantify as to what constitues a cycle.

I can say my Phone battery, when i was plugging it in all night overnight most every night, degraded much faster than when i replaced the battery and I simply plugged it in when it was low or I knew i was going to be away from a charging source for a while.

So I basically do not plug in my phone and keep it fully charged and the battery life seems to degrade less quickly.

how this correlates to prisimatic Lifepo4 cells, I do not know, and those who could definitively say so, obviously have to have experience with such batteries and the tools and wherewithall to actually test capacity and performance.

I would ask your question on the Cruisers forum and Wait for Mainesail's response. Do note you will see John61CT jump in on every thread as an expert as he would do here in his brief stay, or crvl . Seems a lot of people were calling him out on his zero experience BS there too. I kind of stopped visiting there much in part to seeing his BS responses on each and every thread, but it has some of the best technical gurus regarding Lifepo4 that I know of on the web. Basically Mainesail. That would be the guy I would always seek answers from as his experience and knowledge is unmatched, in my opinion.

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f14/