Hi,
This might be a stupid question, but when considering my track record with batteries (in both on my old laptop and my new Framework one I had to replace my batteries twice because they degraded too much), I thought it was best if I ask it anyway.
Today I’m receiving my new battery and to hopefully extend the life of the new battery I want to enable the setting that only lets it charge until 80%. However, I’m unsure whether I should turn this option on the first time I boot with the new battery, or I should do a full charge beforehand and then turn it on? (I vaguely remember something about charging batteries up to 100% and draining them on first use, but I think that is not relevant in the modern world)
Any suggestion or insight would be really helpful, since I seem to be cursed with laptop batteries.
The memory effect, that spawned all those mysterious “You need to do a full cycle once every blue moon” is not really a thing anymore thanks to improved technology.
Li Ion are most happy at a constant 50% charge, so go ahead and set the charge limit as soon as convienent. You don’t need to sweat it, one cycle more or less is not going to make a world of difference.
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It’s still kind of a thing, not because of the chemistry but to re-calibrate the battery controller so it knows how much capacity it actually has to work with. Modern controllers are pretty good at not loosing track but in the case of the framework it seems to loose accuracy relatively quickly. Might have something to do with the weird jumping vsys thing that causes constant micro charging cycles but idk. Not doing it doesn’t hurt the battery but the longer you have not done a full discharge-charge cycle the less accurate the battery controller will be.
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