Acer AN515-56 How to use the Battery Charge Limit in ACC without throttling?

iq_1

For the past three years I've been using this feature because I thought it'd extend my battery life cycle. Little did I know this is the reason why my laptop has been throttling. The description of the feature didn't mention this whatsoever and I lost a lot of performance because of it. However, keeping my laptop plugged in at 100% when i use it means the battery will age faster. Is there any way to limit my battery charge while maintaining maximum performance? Thanks!

My specs:

Model: Acer AN515-56

GTX 1650

Intel i5-11300h

8gb DDR4 RAM

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/706584/acer-an515-56-how-to-use-the-battery-charge-limit-in-acc-without-throttling

You can't avoid power throttling in Windows11 when you don't maintain a fully charged battery, that's why you should leave the power adapter plugged in 24/7 to keep the battery fully charged when you are working. Uninstall Acer Care Center and don't use battery monitoring/charge limiting bloatware as that reduces the capacity of the battery by >20% and affects both BIOS and MS ACPI battery control protocol, Modern Standby in Windows11 23H2 will also be affected, and for what, just because of a myth flaunted on the web about longevity of Li-Ion batteries? Once you uninstalled Acer Care Center check Windows Services as there may still be remnants running like ACCsvc or ACC agent, stop these services and disable the Startup type in Properties, check also Task Scheduler-Library if all the ACC update tasks are gone, if not disable those tasks.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/706584/acer-an515-56-how-to-use-the-battery-charge-limit-in-acc-without-throttling

You can't avoid power throttling in Windows11 when you don't maintain a fully charged battery, that's why you should leave the power adapter plugged in 24/7 to keep the battery fully charged when you are working. Uninstall Acer Care Center and don't use battery monitoring/charge limiting bloatware as that reduces the capacity of the battery by >20% and affects both BIOS and MS ACPI battery control protocol, Modern Standby in Windows11 23H2 will also be affected, and for what, just because of a myth flaunted on the web about longevity of Li-Ion batteries? Once you uninstalled Acer Care Center check Windows Services as there may still be remnants running like ACCsvc or ACC agent, stop these services and disable the Startup type in Properties, check also Task Scheduler-Library if all the ACC update tasks are gone, if not disable those tasks.

iq_1

I understand why now. I didn’t intend to sacrifice my PC for ‘myth flaunted on the web about longevity of Li-Ion batteries’. Turns out ACC is just a bloatware and ain’t no way I’m going to let that slide.

Thank you so much!🙂

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/706584/acer-an515-56-how-to-use-the-battery-charge-limit-in-acc-without-throttling

I've got the same Nitro AN515-56 laptop model (i7-11370H CPU / RTX3050 GPU / 16GB DDR4-3200mHz CL22 RAM specs but its the same laptop) and have used this laptop with Win-11 Home OS but not the Acer provided Win 11 Home as this laptop came installed with Win-10 Home and I did a clean install of the Microsoft Win-11 Home version, so I didn't use the Acer apps and/or the Acer Care Centre and/or enabled the 80% battery charge limit. I’ve also owned this laptop for 3 years and I'm still on the original battery and this laptop is currently running the latest bios and Win-11 version 23H2 also.

This laptop was 99% of time used with its adapter plugged into the mains power and very rarely on battery power alone. I include the battery report for my AN515-56 for your information and as you can see that after 3 years the battery has lost very little of its FULL CHARGE CAPACITY as its @ 45,646 mWh from its OEM BATTERY DESIGN CAPACITY of 57,488 mWh and the CYCLE COUNT 31. As you can see the oem original battery being charged by the adapter for 99% of the time has lost only 20% of its Design Capacity mWh charge from when it was new, which is not allot over a period of 3 years. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

AN515-56 Battery Report.pdf

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iq_1

I see. So the battery is actually better than I thought. Thanks for letting me know!🙂