Get To Know - Myths About Batteries ..!!!

A lot of you guys including me got battery powered gifts this holiday season ...so  this post is to inform you guys about any false information or myth i could find on the internet...

i was actually doing some research on Lithium-ion batteries ,which is the rechargeable type of battery that you will find in any mp3 player , phone or any other device you can find out there .. and in my powers of research i could find 3 main myths that i can explain right now..

Initial Charge

A very long like over night initial charge before you can use it, this is False Li-ion batteries don't require any kind of initial charge or PRIMING is what they call it ,so if your new iPod comes with 40%battery out of the box you can use it at 40%battery ,don't worry about any kind of over night charge ..

UnPlug the Device as soon as it's 100% Charged  

Unplug the device as soon as it get 100% charge..so you can avoid over charging and diminishing the the battery life and this is the most common myth and i have only recently figured out the this is also completely FALSE .. Li-ion batteries are kind of  smart in that way they have built-in circuits that cut power once the battery is fully charged ,if you actually look at a battery charging chart ,they charge really quickly to the first 80% and they basically gradually fill in the last 20% and if you look at it really really closely it bounces off 100% a couple times so it''l go from a 100% to 97%  and then again from 100% to 97% ,and that's the battery rejecting the charge like "alright we are done charging" and after a while when it's discharged then "OK i'll accept a little more"..
but basically it's never over charged the only thing you have to worry about is over heating and that pretty much never happens unless you are using it in a very hot environment , so you don't have to worry about removing the charger in the middle of the night when it's fully charged ..

Caliberating the Battery 

Draining the battery all the way down to 0% then charging it back up to a 100% ,well this is some times true where it's has battery memory where the battery it self needs to be caliberated ,it's the phones software when it some times have problem reading the battery percentage left ,so you may want to do it every year or so But Li-ion batteries have the same performance from just about any percentage discharge ..

The reasons these myths exists is because the original battery technology was Nickel based ,these old Ni batteries needed to be caliberated from a 100% to 0% to get the peak performance ..
So i just saved you all from allthe plugging and unplugging ,i think you owe me a high five or you can leave a  +1 down below ..
that's it .. if you have any more questions you want answer to you can leave it in the comments section down below .. i'l be happy to answer it..
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