On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 19:02 -0500, 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, If I'm not mistaken, I think the charger for the laptop stops charging the laptop's battery when it is full. There's no need for a software solution, as the hardware takes care of it. For Li-Ion batteries, if this didn't happen, they would explode. ________________________________________________________________________ Basil Mohamed Gohar abu_hurayrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.basilgohar.com
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