Coconut Batter App

Coconut says my Current battery capacity is 5614 and the original battery capacity is 5500 mah.... HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? I started at about 97% battery health and now it's up to 100... I have two batteries that get swapped out all the time, my MBP is on about 14 hours a day, being on A/C for about 6 of those hours... I usually swap out the battery at 4% capacity and charge it up again after I am done work and the second battery is at about 30% charge left. Is it bad to always be running it down to very low and charging it all the way up? Other than getting loads of cycles in. ????

I Didn't know that batteries could gain capacity... but my health has been increasing since I first purchased the second battery off of eBay. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining in the least, but I am wondering if this is bad in the long run... ie is it not gonna last as long now? Or can I get even higher capacity?

 

Your question is somewhat answered here :

Anyways, I wouldn't worry about it. Battery health indicators aren't 100% accurate.

Try iStat Pro and other monitors, see what they read of your battery health.

 

That didn't answer any of my questions sam,
All battery meters that I have found show my health as 100% because it shows that I have more capacity than the original battery spec.... oh well.
My real question though was whether or not my practices for battery charging on a daily basis would reduce the life of the battery or not... irregardless of the battery health.

 

Yes it did: "Battery health indicators such as iStat Pro often are not 100% accurate"

To answer the second question, as long as the battery doesn't drain to 0%, using up a battery until its charge is very low is fine.

 

I Didn't use just iStat pro, I used coconut... which is in the thread title and it is supposed to be far more accurate than the istat battery indicator. As for the second thing, I meant... Does draining to low percentages ALL THE TIME over a period of say a year instead of recharging at random intervels like if it was at 50% or say only 75% and then I plugged it in again to full, have any difference on the battery in the long run. So if I were to drain one battery all the way below 5% and then charged it to 100% again for an entire year, how would that be different than draining a second battery to whatever % I used it to and chargin up till full again? Besides the obvious difference in cycles... Heh.. my inability to communicate my questions properly can be frustrating at times, can't it?

 

www.batteryuniversity.com should have the answers for you.

 

Wait i thought this was about Coconut Batter....i can't say i know anything about cooking