do i really have to wait until the battery dies before charging it?

[mlady]

i only have two as my other's just don't work any longer.

i am going out tomo and i know for a fact the second i leave the door one of them is going to need a charge ...

any advice?

 

[Para]

i only have two as my other's just don't work any longer.

i am going out tomo and i know for a fact the second i leave the door one of them is going to need a charge ...

any advice?

How to prolong lithium-based batteries

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Avoid frequent full discharges because this puts additional strain on the battery. Several partial discharges with frequent recharges are better for lithium-ion than one deep one. Recharging a partially charged lithium-ion does not cause harm because there is no memory. (In this respect, lithium-ion differs from nickel-based batteries.) Short battery life in a laptop is mainly cause by heat rather than charge / discharge patterns.[/FONT]

 

[Mary Kay]

MLady, You can charge at any point before the battery starts blinking. It just wears the battery out faster. All the 901, kr696 ect batts have about 200 charges in them..by charging up every 2 minutes it wears them out faster. Think of them as a BIC with just so much fluid in them (no, there is NO fluid in the batteries LOL).
But Once in a while it's just fine.