Originally Posted by NachoRT74

The less the battery gets discharged, the less stressed the charging network will be.
The batt just should source the cranking moment and some load peaks quite often, but the constant operation must be sourced by the alt.


Yes: as when people charge a completely dead battery in the car with only the alternator supplying power.
Ant then you wonder why the stock connections are overloaded.
Alternator is meant to replenish the battery capacity after a "normal" cranking start,