Editing Memory effect (section)

{{Short description|Capacity loss in rechargeable batteries}}
{{About|the 'memory' observed in batteries|the effect related to gravitational waves|Gravitational memory effect|other uses|Memory (disambiguation)}}
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'''Memory effect''', also known as '''battery effect''', '''lazy battery effect''', or '''battery memory''', is an effect observed in [[nickel-cadmium]] [[rechargeable battery|rechargeable batteries]] that causes them to hold less charge.<ref name="BergveldKruijt2002">{{cite book|last1=Bergveld|first1=H.J.|last2=Kruijt|first2=W.S.|last3=Notten|first3=Peter H. L.|title=Battery Management Systems: Design by Modelling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVvo7W3Y7wgC&pg=PA38|access-date=5 June 2013|date=2002-09-30|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781402008320|pages=38–}}</ref><ref name="Duracell">{{cite web
|url=http://www.duracell.com/oem/rechargeable/Nickel/voltdep.asp
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303131745/http://www.duracell.com/oem/rechargeable/Nickel/voltdep.asp
|archive-date=March 3, 2009
|title=Voltage Depression ("Memory Effect")
|website=Duracell.com
|publisher=[[Procter & Gamble]]
|access-date=September 15, 2015}}</ref> It describes the situation in which nickel-cadmium batteries gradually lose their maximum energy capacity if they are repeatedly recharged after being only partially discharged. The battery appears to "remember" the smaller capacity.<ref>{{Cite book|first1=David|last1=Linden|first2=Thomas B.|last2=Reddy|title=Handbook Of Batteries|edition=3rd|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|date=2002|isbn=0-07-135978-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofbatter0000unse/page/28 28-18]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbatter0000unse/page/28}}</ref>