On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:12:47 -0200
"Ismael Scalcon" <thesupermo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

100% is too much for normal work, the battery has a better lifespan if you
limit it to 90% or so, but AFAIK this is only possible with (possibly
newer) thinkpads.

> 2008/12/12 Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org>:
> > On 12/12/2008 05:58 AM, tyler wrote:
> >> Micha Feigin <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> 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
> >
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