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Will leaving my PS4 controller plugged in kill its battery life?

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No. Batteries today that are rechargeable have a built in off switch when they get to 100% and wont start charging again until they drop to 96-98% (for most brands).

It is good to let the battery use its charge to 50% before recharging for good battery life retention / health.

 

 

 

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So I don't actually have a PS4, but I use a PS4 controller to play PC games. I'm not 100% on this, but the battery life seems to be fading. Can leaving it plugged in all the time lead to decreased battery life? I don't have it in 100% of the time, but sometimes I will leave it to charge overnight and then kind of forget about it for a few days. When I do use it though I drain the battery to 0% before plugging it back in.

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2 minutes ago, Virtual01 said:

So I don't actually have a PS4, but I use a PS4 controller to play PC games. I'm not 100% on this, but the battery life seems to be fading. Can leaving it plugged in all the time lead to decreased battery life? I don't have it in 100% of the time, but sometimes I will leave it to charge overnight and then kind of forget about it for a few days. When I do use it though I drain the battery to 0% before plugging it back in.

No it will charge it....

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No. Batteries today that are rechargeable have a built in off switch when they get to 100% and wont start charging again until they drop to 96-98% (for most brands).

It is good to let the battery use its charge to 50% before recharging for good battery life retention / health.

 

 

 

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My MoBo has that thing that charges stuff from the USB even when the PC is off. I leave my PS3 controller there almost 24/7 but when I need it on the PS3, the battery works just fine for more than a day of heavy usage.

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On 16/02/2016 at 3:48 AM, Virtual01 said:

So I don't actually have a PS4, but I use a PS4 controller to play PC games. I'm not 100% on this, but the battery life seems to be fading. Can leaving it plugged in all the time lead to decreased battery life? I don't have it in 100% of the time, but sometimes I will leave it to charge overnight and then kind of forget about it for a few days. When I do use it though I drain the battery to 0% before plugging it back in.

 

Draining it to 0 is actually worse than only half draining it, better plugging it in at 25% or something


Note that  keeping it connected will not drain the battery further as they auto cut off charging

Batteries only have a certain number of cycles, for arguments sake, lets say 250 cycles, so that means every time you charge it, you are diminishing the batteries overall life by a small amount
 

 

 

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