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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buster" data-source="post: 523706" data-attributes="member: 27745">It absolutely WILL reduce the life and capacity to store them charged or to leave them on a charger that doesn't shut off. Leaving a lithium battery in its highest energy state does degrade them. Now, if you fish every other day it's likely not a big deal. If you get out once a month it is. Best habit is to hook them up the night before you go out. Note that the degradation isn't huge and if you're an occasional fisherman leaving one charged for a week or two isn't going to kill it. You likely won't notice a difference. But you definitely don't leave them hooked to a trickle/maintainer all winter. Most manufacturers will suggest somewhere between 30% and 70% charge, aiming at 50%, is the best storage condition. You don't have to obsess over it but you don't want to make storing at full charge a habit.</blockquote>