The cycle number on a lithium battery's spec sheet is true and almost useless, because it describes a life the battery will live only in a temperature-controlled lab being cycled gently by a machine that never has a bad day. A cycle, in that test, means a full charge and a full discharge under mild, steady conditions, repeated until the pack fades to some fraction of its original capacity, often eighty percent. Your warehouse does none of that. It charges in bursts, discharges to whatever the sh