Re: Battery charge limiting

Bob Bishop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 19 Oct 2011, at 19:49, Warner Losh wrote:

> Mac OS doesen't do this for batteries "sealed" into the case, so I too have my doubts about these assertions.  Does anybody have any studies with hard data to back up this conventional wisdom?

I believe that Mac battery controllers severely limit the charge rate as the battery approaches full charge.

Hybrid vehicles typically limit their traction batteries within 20% - 80%, but they are mostly NiMH. I don't know of any hard data for Li-ion.

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Bob Bishop
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