Tool to prevent battery from constantly charging

[arc95]

Working from home on an ASUS G701 Win 10 Pro laptop. I'm worried that with it plugged in, the battery will keep getting a current and lose its capacity over time. So I keep plugging/unplugging as it fully charges; very annoying. Is there an automated tool to keep a battery from getting fried? I wish I could remove the battery and just go straight off the wall outlet.

[P.S. I looked at the battery s/w from ASUS and it's for some other of their laptops.]

 

[Barty1884]

The battery won't 'fry', and batteries, once they've reached 100% charge, will only drain/recharge slightly.

Unplugging/plugging back in is completely unnecessary in this case.

I don't believe you're going to find any tool/software that's going to do what you want - as modern batteries are designed to do so by default.

I wish I could remove the battery and just go straight off the wall outlet.

Is there any reason you cannot? While it's completely unnecessary and cumbersome, removing the battery should be achieveable?

 

[sizzling]

Keeping lithium batteries at 100% can reduce their life. It’s not that they keep receiving a charge but from what I read it’s a higher stress state for the battery. My Dell G5 has a specific battery option for users who predominantly use the laptop plugged in and it cuts off from memory at 80 or 90%.

 

[arc95]

Keeping lithium batteries at 100% can reduce their life. It’s not that they keep receiving a charge but from what I read it’s a higher stress state for the battery. My Dell G5 has a specific battery option for users who predominantly use the laptop plugged in and it cuts off from memory at 80 or 90%.

Thanks, @sizzling and @Barty1884. I guess either a laptop comes with that feature or not. The Dell came with it.

 

[Barty1884]

IIRC, if you wanted to get the absolute best possible lifespan out of a battery, you'd never "drain" it, nor fully charge. From memory, you'd want to keep it's capacity >20% and <80% at all times (although might be off on those % numbers).

How old is the laptop/battery currently?

I remember reading a report/study, but it was on cellphones opposed to laptops (but still lith-ion).
With the way people typically use phones, drain it all day/fully charge at night and it sits fully charged for hours before the user removes it from the charge...... the results were something like 70-80% of the battery life available after ~2 years. And that's with daily drain/charge cycles.

Proprietary software exists, but your (slightly) prolonging the inevitable. Once your laptop is ~5 years old, after seeing fairly regular use/charges, you should probably be looking at replacing the battery, regardless of how well the charge/drain cycles have been monitored/implemented.

 

[arc95]

IIRC, if you wanted to get the absolute best possible lifespan out of a battery, you'd never "drain" it, nor fully charge. From memory, you'd want to keep it's capacity >20% and <80% at all times (although might be off on those % numbers).

How old is the laptop/battery currently?

I remember reading a report/study, but it was on cellphones opposed to laptops (but still lith-ion).
With the way people typically use phones, drain it all day/fully charge at night and it sits fully charged for hours before the user removes it from the charge...... the results were something like 70-80% of the battery life available after ~2 years. And that's with daily drain/charge cycles.

Proprietary software exists, but your (slightly) prolonging the inevitable. Once your laptop is ~5 years old, after seeing fairly regular use/charges, you should probably be looking at replacing the battery, regardless of how well the charge/drain cycles have been monitored/implemented.

Thanks, @Barty1884 . The laptop is about 2 years old. It runs like a charm but it'll require a fresh battery in a few years.