stop charging laptop battery when full

Fri Jan 20 18:54:00 UTC 2017

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:11:25 +0100
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> I can ask the current capacity (and other values) of the battery with:
> [snip]
> While charging, is there a way to stop the charging when
> hw.acpi.battery.life reached 100 to protect the (LI-ion) battery?

Such functionality should be provided by your battery's internal circuitry.
Think about it, it wouldn't be safe for any consumer to buy a laptop which
doesn't switch to DC power when the battery is full.

Cheers,
-- 
Sergei Akhmatdinov

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