2019 MBP Battery question

[Jmgilliam18]

I've got coconut battery installed and just the activity monitor and have noticed lately seems I don't get same "time left" that used to with a certain %. I've had for 6 months or so and have 116 cycles. Down just a bit in capacity, but seems like draining faster. I keep plugged in a lot, most days since home office and its running dual monitors so it's plugged in most days. Just unplug for using on couch at night or traveling. Is keeping it plugged in all the time killing the time i have when unplugged or is it jsut normal to lose some of that capacity? I really noticed it using airplane wifi last trip, it went down 30-40% in just a couple hours, but the wifi is horrible so I guess that could have drained it faster.. idk. Just want to keep top notch as long as can, first Mac and love it.

thanks.

 

[Fishrrman]

Post your coconut battery report so we can see it.

Are you running the display at maximum brightness all the time? That will use up power.

 

[Jmgilliam18]

Post your coconut battery report so we can see it.

Are you running the display at maximum brightness all the time? That will use up power.

i run the display low on battery for that reason. I wonder if the weak wifi on plane was really bringing it down. Here is the coconut battery sreenshots

 

[jerryk]

Poor wifi will drain batteries. Lots of packet collisions and retransmissions. The net result is your computer does a lot of extra work and work consumes power.

 

[Fishrrman]

You're at 99.2% of original battery capacity.
It couldn't get much better.

Other than the wifi connection, it could be an application or system process "running away" in the background, using more energy than it should.

 

[Jmgilliam18]

Poor wifi will drain batteries. Lots of packet collisions and retransmissions. The net result is your computer does a lot of extra work and work consumes power.

Good cause the wifi sucks on southwest, and that's when really noticed it. Just concerned that me keeping it plugged in all day will do something to harm it or reduce life
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You're at 99.2% of original battery capacity.
It couldn't get much better.

Other than the wifi connection, it could be an application or system process "running away" in the background, using more energy than it should.

Chrome. Man it sucks power. Especially facebook ads manager when open... but it's so good we have to use it lol. Just been worried that me keeping it plugged in all day will do something to harm it or reduce the life

 

[Fishrrman]

"Chrome. Man it sucks power. Especially facebook ads manager when open... but it's so good we have to use it lol."

No, you DON'T "have to use it".
Find something else, or put up with the power losses...

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

I use chrome at work because it’s already installed and handles our CRM the best. But I won’t even install chrome on my personal computer or any google application. Safari is efficient and secure