Power Management
phil
happyharrysco1 at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 17 11:43:54 UTC 2009
brad longo wrote:
> As I'm sure most of you know, leaving your laptop plugged in and
> charging with a full battery charge is harmful for the battery. I have
> been trying to see if Fedora's power management tool has something built
> in so that when the battery reaches full charge, it will then discharge
> to lets say around 95% before beginning to charge again. Friends of
> mine with the same laptop use such measures except they are running
> windows. However, based on the fact I did not see any documentation
> about this, and that my battery charge does not appear to fluctuate at
> all once it becomes fully charged (according to the statistics), I'm
> guessing no such thing exists in Fedora. Does anyone have any
> information as to whether this safety feature exists in Fedora, or
> whether some other measures exist instead? Basically I'm just wondering
> if I need to periodically unplug my laptop to preserve the lifespan of
> the battery, which would be annoying. Also if this is not a feature is
> anyone working on developing something like this for Fedora?
>
brad most all newish laptops use lithium ion batteries, these use a
CC/CV charging routine so leaving the power attached when the battery is
full will do no damage ;-)
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