[Electronics-Talk] battery notification question

[Aaron Spears]

Hi


I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you. I've never bothered 
about full batteries in all my considerable time using laptops. It does 
shorten  the lifetime of the batteries but not enough that you should 
care. Use it the way that seems most convenient. Some computers do have 
the option of staying at 80 percent instead of 100 which is supposed to 
increase the number of charge cycles a fair bit, but you didn't mention 
what your computer is. You can try to find out if yours has the option 
to do that. Otherwise, leave it plugged in if you want to. Discharging 
it because you unplugged it so you wouldn't be keeping it at full charge 
and using it on battery just because is harder on it than keeping it at 
full charge, that is a charge cycle when you run it down on battery. 
Given the choice between staying at full charge or discharging every day 
or two, full charge all the time would be preferable, at least that 
seems to be what most people say who think they know. You can do it just 
to keep the calibration and help ensure the battery gets a little 
excersize. If you go weeks without ever needing to unplug it, you could 
unplug it and run it until it quits and then charge it and not worry 
about it anymore. Overcharging is not really a thing. There are battery 
management systems in these devices that control when the charge stops 
and when it starts again etc.








Cheers:
Aaron Spears, AKA Valiant8086 General Partner at Valiant Galaxy Associates "we make (VERY GOOD AUDIOGAMES) for the blind comunity" http://valiantGalaxy.com

On 10/30/2022 11:42 AM, Madison Martin via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was just wondering in Windows 11 is there a notification for when a computer
> battery is fully charged? I ask because I always have my laptop plugged in but I
> know that this isn't good for it but I do this because I worry that I won't know
> when it's fully charged (I know when it's getting low as battery saver comes on
> and Jaws tells me) but Jaws doesn't tell me when it's fully charged and I hate
> having to come back to check the battery level so if Windows 11 can indicate
> this then that'd be grate. I did get something from the Microsoft Store called
> battery notification and I was told that the sound can be customized but I can't
> figure out how to do this as when I enter on it in the list of notifications all
> it does is turn the notification on/off. I'd also love to turn down the volume
> as it's really loud even though the volume on my laptop isn't. So if anyone can
> tell me how to do both of these things or has a better idea of what I could do
> then I'd love to hear it/them! Running latest version of Windows 11. Thanks
> Madison
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