FAQS

A cycle is a complete discharging of a fully charged battery. Regarding the 1000 cycle life claim the IEC standard is about 500 cycles minimum. Our product performance is in excess of  the IEC. Note that the number of charging cycles depends on the charging and discharging currents. Under IEC charging currents (as in the attachment) the batteries can certainly be charged up to 1000 times. However, if you increase the charging and discharging currents the number of cycles will decrease. Note that each charging/discharging cycle takes about a day, so 1000 cycles is actually over 2 years of non-stop use, well within most consumer requirements   After many charge and discharge cycles the active material in the cell  loses performance. In particular, the cells  negative pole powderizes,  and the electrolyte dries up.  ( Overcharging and partial charging are not major factors since NiMH has no memory effect )   For these reasons we do not guarantee 1000 cycles.soshine marketing guidelines stipulate the charging cycles are up to 1000 cycles.