[ltp] One battery or two?

[Philipp Kern]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:02:23PM +0200, Michael Gaber wrote:
> nope. there are 2 files in smapi: start_charge_threshold (1) and
> stop_charge_threshold (2). my current setting is (1) at 30% and (2) at
> 70% so my thinkpad will not charge the battery at all if it has between
> 30 and 70% of it's capacity. it will NOT discharge the battery while
> plugged in, so you perhaps save yourself some cycles (doubt that) but
> keep the battery away from the bad last 20 or so % which stress the
> cells extremely when charged because the controller has to use high
> voltages to charge the cells.
> 
> with this setting I'm currently at 16.38% capacity loss of my nearly 2
> year old 9-cell battery of my t60 with 354 cycles on it

How do you keep these settings?  Own init script at boot which sets
them?

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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