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The Skeptics Guide #927 - Apr 15 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Importance of Preconditioning Your Battery

The protocol for that is not a simple, high current charge. You charge it high at first when it's at a low state of charge and then you sort of taper off. And so you can preserve the cycle life, as it's called, the number of charged discharge cycles by doing the charging in a mode that doesn't overwhelm it, if you will. Would that be the standard way to charge in? Or would that just be still for special occasions where you want to get to 80% within six minutes? Is there a number? It could be the standard. We did this at room temperature and still got a very, very, I would say, impressive result.

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