[Electronics-Talk] battery notification question

Sun Oct 30 23:59:06 UTC 2022

I've seen this advice in the past as well, but it had to do with minimizing the heat the battery was subjected to. Once the battery has enough charge, and you're plugged in, then remove the battery so it's not exposed to the heat generated by the CPU. The downside to this is that if you lose power then your laptop shuts down. Also, a lot of new laptops have batteries that are hard to remove.

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I've never heard of Windows having a full battery alert.  I've seen a lower battery alert one can set.

A person who knows more about computers than I told me once, when I had a laptop, I should pull the battery when it's full, if I kept it plugged up.

I never put that advice into use.  So I don't know if that works or not.

Vince

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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.

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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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