Well, both my EEE Pc and my girlfriend's Aspire 4520 stop charging the battery when 100% (the battery charging light turn off and the OS energy manager just says "Using AC" instead of "Charging". Both in my EEE Pc Debian and My girlfriends Aspire Windows XP.
2008/12/12 Michael Shuler <[email protected]>: > On 12/12/2008 05:58 AM, tyler wrote: >> Micha Feigin <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Not completely, what newer batteries hate is heat, over and under >>> charging. If it's always plugged in it may kill the battery rather >>> quickly. What I have on my current thinkpad is the ability to stop >>> charging before 100% and that can add quite a bit of like to the >>> battery. >> >> How do you do this? I've got a thinkpad R60, and I've been plugging it >> in when it runs low, then (when I remember), unplugging it when it >> reaches full charge. Is there some way to automate this? I know the >> Windows partition has some configuration options, but I don't know how >> to do this under Debian. > > Been using settings for charge control from here for a year or so: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi#Battery_charge_control_features > > -- > Kind Regards, > Michael Shuler > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
