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Hi @yabo-boye, |
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Unless you are having your Mac plugged in all day long, your battery is going to get cycles on it. To clarify what exactly one cycle is: Any amount of discharge and charge that add up to 100%.
For reference, I replaced my battery at the end of December. Granted the Mac has mostly been sitting at home but this is my battery stats according to coconutbattery. This is basically what you are aiming for. As of now, I gained about 5 charge cycles every month and lost about 0.6% battery health since January. (I have AlDente only since around the end of February. Only discharges were due to doing battery calibration and keeping the ions somewhat moving). And I noticed, the mAh always only drop significantly when the battery has been emptied completely. So I am pretty certain that draining it all the way is the worst thing you can do. Leaving it on 100% didn't do much harm in the first 2 months, or at least I didn't notice anything bad. But of course a steady percentage of maximum 80%, set via AlDente, is advised and that is why we are here :) |
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wow everyone, thanks for the really in-depth and helpful explanations, i really appreciate it! does anyone know, what is the ideal battery temperature? i want to play with the macs fan control app to have an even more cool system (i live in a pretty hot tropical environment) |
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I have been using this app for a few days trying to keep my battery between 30-70% (i have to use it unplugged often), but I am noticing the cycle count is still increasing in a way that is faster than I would have expected. Is there any tweaking I could do?
I'm on a Mid-2012 Macbook Air, Macos Catalina, and a brand new battery.
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