Perpetual Rewiring

Battery Balancing

A couple guidelines for balancing battery between electronics.

  • If you have limited outlets or limited time, plug in the fastest charging devices. Prioritize charging devices which can charge other devices.
  • If you need more ports, most laptops can function as a bad and slow impromptu charging hub.
  • Check your cables and chargers aren't limiting your charging speed.
  • If you know you're going to have limited charging capability later, drain the fastest charging devices into the other ones now so you have more empty battery capacity to fill.
  • Don't top up high consumption devices when you don't need them.
  • Don't fully drain a power bank into another device until you absolutely need it. You never know when or where you'll need that last 5%, so keep it somewhere transferable.

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Nightly Notes

There's a whole extra layer of strategizing you can do around what devices with what ports and speeds and capabilities to even use, but I can't be bothered. I have higher priorities.

And I'm not in the mood for writing today. Oh well.

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