What are charge cycles?

A charge cycle is like giving your toy battery a little nap and then waking it up again, but not always all at once.

Imagine you have a remote control car that runs on batteries. Every time you play with it, the battery gets used up a bit, just like when you use your phone and it goes from full to half or empty. Now, if you take the battery out and put in a new one, that’s like changing the toy's nap, it starts fresh again.

But sometimes, instead of changing the battery every time, you can charge it, like how you charge your phone with a cable. A charge cycle happens when you use up some of the battery’s energy and then recharge it back to full, even if you don’t wait until it's completely empty.

So, one full charge cycle is like going from full battery to empty and then charging it all the way back again. But even if you only use half the battery and charge it halfway, that still counts as part of a charge cycle, just not the whole thing yet!