Charge Controller

Maintain battery between selected percentages to optimize battery lifetime on any computer running Chrome.

What is Charge Controller?

Charge Controller is a Chrome extension that allows you to automatically turn a smart outlet on/off to optimize the lifespan of your li-ion batteries by reducing the depth of discharge. Increase your battery longevity by up to 25,000%!

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By: allen-n

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 179 ▼ -13

Rating: 5.00 (2)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2020-06-09)

Creation date: 2020-06-07

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

alarms
storage
https://maker.ifttt.com/*

Size: 55.20K

Email: al*****@gmail.com

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# 57260 ▼ 501

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#5597 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 42

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Extension summary

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Increase your battery longevity by up to 25,000%!

This extension allows you to automatically turn a smart outlet on/off (sold separately) at certain charge percentages. This will let you optimize the lifespan of your li-ion batteries! According to battery university (and numerous other sources), reducing the depth of discharge of your lithium ion battery from 100% to 10% can increase it's longevity by up to 25,000%!

https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries https://www.wired.com/2013/09/laptop-battery/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/8e8e1e/keeping_chromebook_plugged_in_all_the_time/

The extension is using the Battery Status API, and is an extension of battery-info-chrome-extension by radibit.

User reviews

This made me so happy on discovering it! I am on my first cycle, notifications on and it is repeating the off trigger (appropriate for batt%, but every two minutes). I'm on CromeOS FLEX—updated—running on old DELL Vostro. I'm going to turn off notification. But, ya got any advice?

SCOTT WILLIAMS, 2022-12-05

I think as long as you have an outlet that can be directly controlled through IFTTT or indirectly controlled by some other hub or service that has IFTTT support, this extension should work well. Many thanks