Common mistakes in charging and discharging strategies

Typical mistakes in charging and discharging settings

A poor strategy can cost money, stress your battery, or reduce comfort. Leafy Energy helps you avoid these pitfalls.

Mistake 1: Over-aggressive discharging

• Running the battery to almost 0% just to avoid every expensive kWh.
• Result: no buffer for outages and more cycles than necessary.

Mistake 2: Always wanting 100% charge

• Keeping the battery full “just in case”.
• Result: long periods at high voltage, which is not ideal for lifetime.

Mistake 3: Ignoring your profile

• Using the same settings for a small apartment and an all-electric villa.
• Result: the battery is not used when your household would benefit most.

Mistake 4: Looking at price only

• Making charge/discharge decisions purely on hourly prices.
• Result: potential comfort loss (cold house, not enough hot water) and awkward timing.

Leafy Energy includes these mistakes in its warnings and “health checks”. In demos you can show how the system suggests smarter settings when it detects unhealthy patterns.