volta/README.md

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# Volta ⚡️

Battery assistant for prolonging the lifespan of your battery. Runs in the background, has configurable limits and can be enabled to run on startup.

[Screenshot](#screen)

### [Download](https://github.com/CupCakeArmy/volta/releases)

## What does it do?

Good question. It gives you notifications about when to plug and unplug your charger. 

> Cool, but why?

Batteries loose the most capacity if the voltage difference is high, or staying at 100%. Hence, if you you use your laptop most of the time plugged in, it will decrease the capacity of the battery quicker than normal.

To sum up, you should **not**:

- Charge you battery **regulary** over 80-90%
- Discharge under 30-40%

Reference to the science:

- http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
- https://www.popsci.com/charge-batteries-right


## Quickstart 💥

[Download](https://github.com/CupCakeArmy/volta/releases). Run.

## Feedback

Remember this is pretty new software wrote in ~2days, so if you encounter bugs or have feature requests please let me know!

## Build 🔨

There are prebuilt binaries for macOS [here](https://github.com/CupCakeArmy/volta/releases). However you can also complile them yourself.

```bash
# Install dependencies
npm i

# Build the app
npm run pack:all
```

### Screen

![Screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/DX8mjRE.png)