Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits...
needanke@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I think calibrating once a week is totally fair and honestly not that much of a draw on the system.
Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits...
needanke@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I think calibrating once a week is totally fair and honestly not that much of a draw on the system.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
That’s excessive. There’s just not that much drift in accuracy on the space of a week. Monthly would be enough.
netweirdo@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t believe that because this isn’t about capacity calibration, but more so that the battery voltage is almost constant between about 20% and 90%, though varies by battery type, and no matter what, the controller can’t exactly know how much the battery is actually charging and discharging so it has to guess the current state. I’ve seen this happen on a Dell XPS laptop I have from work, I manually set it to limit charging to 80% since the built in “Primarily AC Use” mode cycles it around 95%, and it doesn’t do the occasional recharge to 100% by itself, so about once a month it would jump from whatever percentage it was at to 7%, even from 80%.