Question about DS (lite) battery

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#1 Cursed_Shadow
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i may be taking this out of hand, but i'm slightly concerned about my ds lite's battery. Is it better to recharge the battery after a single play? or is it better to leave it to go flat before recharging?

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Lithium Ion batteries are meant to be recharged whenever it is convienant. They have a 1 to 2 year life expectancy. Memory effect doesn't affect modern rechargeables.

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#3 arfy2
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I've been charging my battery whenver the red light comes on. I've had it for 16 months and there have been no problems for me.
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#4 RESISTEE926
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Lithium Ion batteries are meant to be recharged whenever it is convienant. They have a 1 to 2 year life expectancy. Memory effect doesn't affect modern rechargeables.

meimnobody
thats the time when they are in use. not just sitting there
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#5 Ellimist314
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I'm almost positive that it's unhealthy to let the battery run completely dry. Charge it whenever it turns red, or whenever it's convenient for you and you should have no problem.
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#6 Diklo1
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its best to charge lithium batteries when they'r near dead. A saw a news special on ipod batteries and since it uses lithium batteries i would apply to anything that uses lithium battteries.
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#7 BrunoBRS
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the less u charge the better, 'cause the unused battery becomes unusable, and then it "kills" ur battery storing capacity. only charge it when u have played about 20mins after it became red.
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#8 meimnobody
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the less u charge the better, 'cause the unused battery becomes unusable, and then it "kills" ur battery storing capacity. only charge it when u have played about 20mins after it became red.BrunoBRS

Lithium Ion batteries for the last time are not affected by memory effect. They are meant to be recharged whenever convienant. 1 to 2 years is their life expectancy. They do not last forever. As for the news special do not trust said supposed news special. Lots of news special get the most basic facts wrong.

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#9 serj_tankian05
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mine is almost always on charge....before, while and after..........and someone said 1 to 2 year battery life here.....wrong.....500 charges before its starts to die.....i have had mine since april this year and its already about to have to be changed.....
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#10 meimnobody
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Wrong read the manual. It says 1 to 2 year battery life. After 500 charges it loses 40% of the charge. Of course that pretty much is a year and a half if you charged it each day.
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#11 serj_tankian05
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hey...mem whatever your name is......my point is.....you cant say that it lasts a year....mine is almost ready to be changed....it has not been a year.....mind your own if you cant read the post little man.......
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#12 Ithink82
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mine is almost always on charge....before, while and after..........and someone said 1 to 2 year battery life here.....wrong.....500 charges before its starts to die.....i have had mine since april this year and its already about to have to be changed.....serj_tankian05

thats funny, my battery still lasts around 8-10 hours on low light setting (3-5 on higest) and i got it about 1 month after the ds lite came out. And i don't consider meself to have been careful charging it or anything, So maybe i am just lucky.