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by astrange 1954 days ago
Leaving batteries on a charger can wear them out much faster than just leaving it in a drawer. This is avoided by "optimized battery charging" on phones/watches/airpods now but I don't know if mice do it.
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Any battery charger circuit without trickle charge disconnect is not worth an engineering 101 assignment.
The issue is that keeping the battery full past 80% is bad for it, but if you're always charging, that implies you always want it to be 100% ready not 80% ready.