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For your bedroom you'd really want an old 5W charger. Why turbo charge and put permanent strain on your battery when anything that takes 6+ hours will do.
by tjoff 7y ago
For your bedroom you'd really want an old 5W charger. Why turbo charge and put permanent strain on your battery when anything that takes 6+ hours will do.
- jonplackett 7y agoApparently (with iPhones at least) you shouldn’t have to worry about that anymore. https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-ios-13s-optimized-battery-charging-save-your-battery/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-ios-13s-optimized-battery-...
- mrpurple_ 7y agoCharging slower is always better for lion based batteries. Period
- IndrekR 7y agoFor battery lifetime -- also charging to lower voltage and stopping discharging at higher voltage. Cathode will stay intact longer this way and metallic lithium has less chance on plating the anode.
- sm4rk0 7y agoThere's an Android app for that (if the device is rooted) https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit
- driverdan 7y agoIf it's a good quality charger it shouldn't be feeding the battery enough power to impact its lifetime.
- JshWright 7y agoThe "charger" in this case is built into the phone, the thing we call a "charger" is really just a power supply for the actual charge controller.
- adrianmonk 7y agoA phone will charge as rapidly as it can without undue risk to the battery's longevity. But, it's still a trade-off. If you charged slower, you would decrease risk to longevity. But when you to bed, your phone doesn't know that rapid charging convenience doesn't matter. So it will still make the same trade-off. If you use a less-powerful charger, you can force it to take its time in charging.
- kalleboo 7y ago> But when you to bed, your phone doesn't know that rapid charging convenience doesn't matter iPhones now know that you're going to bed and adjusts the charging to match https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210512 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210512 I believe some Android phones have had the same feature for years now, dunno about the base android OS
- IndrekR 7y agoThat is controlled in the phone, not in the charger.
- starky 7y agoWhile charging circuits are much smarter now, and the difference might be minimal, you want lower charging currents to minimize the amount of damage that is done to the materials in the battery. It is universal that higher charge rates cause more damage to the crystal structure that holds the lithium ions.
- dmix 7y agoDoes this mean using one of the bigger brick 15in MacBook Pro charger on a 11in MacBook (both USB c) is bad for the smaller MacBooks charger? My gf always uses mind when she can’t find hers...
- starky 7y agoThat isn't a problem at all, a charging circuit will be designed to only take as much power as the device can receive.