Providing an AC power cable with Librem 5

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@ahartman

I urge Purism developers to include a built in charge controller in Librem 5

Use the force search, Luke.

Librem 5 "battery fully charged" audio indication

First of all, yes, the battery will be user replaceable. Second, caring for LiPoly/LiIon batteries has become sometimes more of religion than engineering The facts that I know are: they do not like to be discharged low they do not like to be recharged too often the last about 10-20% of charge cause the most wear Years of experience of Thinkpad users where the charge controller can be software controlled show that battery packs can be kept alive a lot longer when a) avoiding …

Long story short in the Librem5 we will implement a smart charger chip

@ahartman

Thank you for your detailed response

You asked all your questions before and they had all been competently answered before, and you even were thankful.

To what degree is librem 5 suitable for tethering

Hi, let’s see: Items 1 & 2 can be solved. The Wifi will be AP capable so you can attach other devices to it. The base OS is Linux and you will of course be able to configure things like iptables for firewalling. Number 3, replacing the battery is pretty high on our priority list for the case design. We can not 100% assure this yet nor say now how this will be possible. But we definitely want that users can replace their batteries - but you may need a screw driver for doing so. But there will…

If Nicole answered you, you’ll not get better answers by asking the same thing again in the next year.

@tg_gpm

the charge controller will be necessary, and every device has one, as will the Librem 5.

Technically correct, but it also needs to be software controllable, which is not true for the laptops but true for the phone as Nicole told him already last year.