alt Hacker NewsHuh, unexpected is right. Bursts of heavy usage being better for longevity than steady usage goes against pretty much all conventional engineering wisdom.
Huh, unexpected is right. Bursts of heavy usage being better for longevity than steady usage goes against pretty much all conventional engineering wisdom.
Without knowing anything about it, I would posit that degradation accelerates the longer the battery is kept above some threshold temperature.
So, a heavy-burst+low results in a sudden high temperature then settling into a lower temperature. Steady flow keeps it at moderate temperature (above threshold) for a long time.