There is a saying that if your rechargeable batteries used properly, will appear a certain cycle range of the best state, which is the largest capacity. This should be sub-situation, sealed nickel-metal hydride batteries and nickel-cadmium batteries, if used properly (such as regular maintenance to prevent the memory effect generation and cumulative), generally in the 100 – 200 cycles to reach its maximum capacity, such as factory capacity 1000mAh Ni-MH battery with 120 cycles, its capacity could reach 1100mAh. Almost all Japanese Ni-MH battery manufacturer’s technical specifications book describes the cycle characteristics of nickel-based batteries as this description.
Nickel-based batteries have the best state, typically 100 – 200 between cycles reach their maximum capacity.
For liquid lithium-ion batteries, there is no such cycle capacity hump phenomenon, from the lithium-ion battery factory to the final retirement date, the performance of its capacity is to use a less time after you use. When I do in the cycle performance of lithium-ion batteries, there has never seen signs of recovery capacity.
Lithium-ion battery has no best condition
It is worth mentioning that the lithium-ion battery is more susceptible to environmental temperature and changes in different properties, in 25 – 40 degrees ambient temperature will show their best performance, while the low temperature or high temperature condition, his performance is significantly impaired. To get your lithium-ion batteries fully demonstrated its capacity, must be careful attention to the using environment, to prevent the high and low temperature phenomena, such as mobile phone on the car before the stage, direct sun at noon is very easy to make it more than 60 degrees, the North users’ battery standby time, in the same network circumstances, is less longer than the South users.