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I understand that my battery has an estimated charge cycle life of 2000-6000 (maybe more dependent on depths of use/charge levels) charge cycles before becoming roughly 80% of original capacity. What I'm wondering is what defines a charge cycle when my battery is hooked up to one or two 100W...

Interesting and depressing lol! So my battery could potentially go through 100 charge cycles a day depending on cloud cover!? I guess the lesson here is to not have it connected to the RV unless I'm out camping.

No, I said battery was at 40% at sunrise, it charged full sun until 2pm when a storm rolled over and CHARGING dropped to zero. I'd assume around this time using one or two 100W panels that my battery capacity (SOC) would be roughly 60-80% depending on how many panels I used. Then the storm blew...

So bear with me here, I'm just trying to understand "cycling". I appreciate your time and help! Let's say my RV sits unused in the sun for a week. The 100ah battery begins at 100% SOC. It it's using some power from the battery but minimal, like 10-20ah/day because the radio and fridge are on...

OK, so at that rate it seems there is no need to disconnect the battery to "lessen" cycles when the RV is just sitting idle for weeks at a time.