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)
## Contributions 🙏
- https://github.com/daaanny90 dark mode support
## 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)