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    Power Manager 3.20 is out

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by darkwish, Apr 21, 2010.

  1. aznguyphan

    aznguyphan Notebook Evangelist

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    The way I understand it is (as I said earlier), batteries don't like to be deep discharged (100% down to 5%) and they don't like to be topped off (charged from 95% to 100%).

    So the threshold you have now is not horrible for batterylife as long a you're machine is mainly plugged in. The idea is that it charges your battery to 100%, and once the battery trickle discharges down past 95, it recharges the battery.

    While you are topping off your battery, which is bad, you're not doing it often if you're primarily using the laptop plugged in. And for many people, it's important to have their battery at 100% on a moment's notice.

    40% - 95% seems to be the most popular setting for conserving battery lifespan.
     
    aznguyphan, Apr 27, 2010
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  2. cwerdna

    cwerdna Notebook Consultant

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    Inside the Box Blog Archive ThinkPad Power Manager (pictures are dead).

    Out of curiosity, with this update, do adjustable thresholds (don't start until x%, only charge up to y%) return to/get added to the SL series?

    They never went away for my on my T61p. :p
     
    cwerdna, Apr 28, 2010
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  3. warakawa

    warakawa Notebook Evangelist

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    how come on this page it's still not updated?
     
    warakawa, Apr 28, 2010
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  4. 49ersmylife

    49ersmylife Notebook Guru

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    Love the new PW 3.20! My thresholds are 41% - 90% and since I'm mostly plugged in when workin' on my thinkpad, the battery stays at 90%. Since I'm out workin' in Asia - there are a lot of blackouts here, so I can't pull the battery out either. So, this works perfectly.
     
    49ersmylife, Apr 29, 2010
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