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53 lines
1.5 KiB
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# Volta ⚡️
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Battery assistant for prolonging the lifespan of your battery. Runs in the background, has configurable limits and can be enabled to run on startup.
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[Screenshot](#screen)
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### [Download](https://github.com/CupCakeArmy/volta/releases)
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## What does it do?
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Good question. It gives you notifications about when to plug and unplug your charger.
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> Cool, but why?
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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.
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To sum up, you should **not**:
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- Charge you battery **regulary** over 80-90%
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- Discharge under 30-40%
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Reference to the science:
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- http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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- https://www.popsci.com/charge-batteries-right
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## Quickstart 💥
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[Download](https://github.com/CupCakeArmy/volta/releases). Run.
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## Feedback
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Remember this is pretty new software wrote in ~2days, so if you encounter bugs or have feature requests please let me know!
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## Build 🔨
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There are prebuilt binaries for macOS [here](https://github.com/CupCakeArmy/volta/releases). However you can also complile them yourself.
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```bash
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# Install dependencies
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npm i
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# Build the app
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npm run pack:all
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```
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### Screen
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