From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 18:13:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECADC106564A for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:13:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fmobile@paz.bz) Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [207.34.147.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC7D8FC15 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 100-236-53-209.qcislands.net ([209.53.236.100] helo=[192.168.1.4]) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 4.75) (envelope-from ) id 1RGa1o-000E1c-A8; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:34:12 -0700 Message-ID: <4E9F0A0E.10009@paz.bz> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:34:06 -0700 From: Jim Pazarena User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <201110182335.15862.onyx@z-up.ru> <201110190844.17703.onyx@z-up.ru> <201110191713.02435.onyx@z-up.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-local_scan: locally submitted (100) Subject: Re: Battery charge limiting X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:13:39 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote, On 2011-10-19 8:49 AM: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Dmitry Kolosov 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