Battery charge limiting

Jim Pazarena fmobile at paz.bz
Wed Oct 19 18:13:39 UTC 2011


Kevin Oberman wrote, On 2011-10-19 8:49 AM:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Dmitry Kolosov<onyx at z-up.ru>  wrote:
>> Now the question is: how to discover EC/battery controller capabilities of
>> such functions as holding battery about X% of full charge.
>
> Or to find the EC magic to turn off charging and create a daemon that
> monitors charge level nd turns charging off at about 80% and back on
> if it drops below 75%.

renowned Tech Guy "Leo Laporte" and security expert "Steve Gibson"
had a discussion regarding lithium ion batteries, and Steve's findings
contradict these comments.

I captured their podcast, and created a wav file (48Mb download) which
is available at ftp://ftp.haidagwaii.net/wav/
specifically at:
ftp://ftp.haidagwaii.net/wav/lithium_ion_batteries_care-and-maintenance48Mb.wav


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