Don't underestimate the power of deep discharge.

You know that part in The Princess Bride where poor Fezzik has 3 full grown people draped around his shoulders and he's scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, fleeing from the unknown masked man, and Vizzini's giving him a hard time about it?

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THIS COLOSSUS, YOU WERE THIS GREAT LEGENDARY THING, AND YET HE GAINS!

I had the same thought today about Li-Ion batteries.

More specifically, the Li-Ion battery in my digital camera. It wasn't holding a charge, the darn thing. I thought Li-Ion wasn't supposed to have the memory problems of other, inferior rechargable batteries. I was disappointed. Yet he gains, indeed.

As a last resort, I kept on turning it on and waiting for it to lose it's juice. Repeated 30 million times. Then, I plugged the A/C adapter back in, and it seems to be charging happily now. Oh, a happy ending for all.