Get AMAZING Battery Life on your STEAM DECK!

Everything you ever wanted to know about the science of battery life is answered in this video, by none other than your personal battery scientist: TechDweeb the Science Dweeb!

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- MUSIC CREDITS -
Intro: Captive Portal - Intro For A Nonexisting Video Game
Outro: RoccoW - Chipho instrumental

- CHAPTERS -
00:00 Batteries of yesterday and today
01:40 The SCIENCE!
02:04 Lithium Ion Batteries
02:52 Sponsor: UGREEN
03:57 BATTERY MAINTENANCE
04:07 Heat
04:52 Discharge
05:54 Charge
06:41 DEVICE SETTINGS
06:54 Screen Brightness
07:26 Audio level
07:48 Wifi & Bluetooth
08:10 Background Stuff
09:00 Windows Features
09:31 GAME SETTINGS
10:43 Screen Settings
11:15 Graphics Settings
11:44 TDP
12:15 What I do
13:17 BONUS TIP: Calibration
14:20 Wrap up

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[Mjj]

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Congrats buddy! Well deserved.

[ToyKeeper]

I used to do portable device battery and power testing for a living. The things which age batteries fastest are fast charging, over-charging, and over-draining. Keeping it about half full gives it the longest life, and the closer it gets to totally full or totally empty, the faster it ages. To get the maximum amount of total unplugged play hours out of a battery across its entire lifespan, use it to about 20% full then slow-charge it back to 80%, and repeat. And when not in use for a while, or when plugged in for a long time, try to keep it at about 60% When cared for, a battery can last decades... but when not cared for, it can go kaput in less than a year.

[salitz]

DWEEB! DWEEB! DWEEB!

That intro song sent me back, man. Well done, TD!

[RandySloan]

Oh my God not Teddy Ruxpin! Loved that bear you sir are my people, also thank you so much for uploading you just brightened my day! ❤

[paladin]

That science dweeb intro was very well done.

[Reed-Publications]

0:12 - No way! I had that exact remote control car as a kid ... and a Teddy Ruxpin as well! I swear we had the exact same childhood. 😆

[hibikiholmes]

Another way to offset battery degradation is if your device has a pass through charging feature where it diverts power away from your battery and rely on directly from your wall charger. I know that some Android devices have it like the AYN Odin 2 and Samsung/ASUS phones.

[TheDinoflagellate]

I love that intro!!! 😂 Nice! I always heard that if you fully drain the lithium batteries, it ends up reducing the overall life of the device. But if you only need to calibrate maybe once in a blue moon, it will probably still be okay. Great info as usual!

[dragonknight]

Great guide on proper settings, so many do not do this, and they are not gaming to their full potential as a result. External batteries were made for folks like that. The rest of us learn how to set up our devices and live long and prosper 🤘

[Neemulus]

Sir you are both a science and comedy genius. Thank you Mr Dweeb sir...

[EightPieceBox]

Buy all the devices. When your battery gets low, plug it in and play a different handheld.

[Jimalcoatl]

You know, back during the Xbox 360/PS3 console generation, I used to hear that the Xbox using AA batteries in its controller made it inferior to the PS3, which used a lithium battery, but I personally found it to be way more convenient. Instead of having to plug in my controller every day or two, I would just keep some rechargeable AA batteries. When the ones in my controller died, I just had to swap them out for fresh ones and stick the dead ones on the charger. I never had to have a cable connected to my wireless controller. It was kind of nice.

Replaceable batteries are very under rated and I wish more devices still had easy-to-swap batteries so that you could cycle through them.

[jased]

I await the retroid pocket 5 and mini.

[ravenknight_gaming]

Never knew T.D.P. meant that. Good one lol

[firebloom]

This is exactly the kind of video I needed to get a better (beginner) understanding on this topic. Thanks!

[Thebitbeard]

Slight warning regarding "battery calibration" on the Steam Deck. I haven't heard any reports lately, so maybe they fixed it, but some people were experiencing an issue with the Deck's screen going black and not coming back on again even after charging it back up when you drain the battery. It still runs as evident when you plug it into an external display, but theres nothing on the built in screen. A fix was found that involves flashing the BIOS, but I've been afraid to let my Deck go below 10% because of it.

[alexdodd]

14:25 do ignore the range part of this guide in case all the electricity goes down in the entire district of your city more than once a week. Thats my tip.

[WMARUoriginal]

I limit my questionably shaped neck massager to 85%

[danielhulan]

OMG throw back to Bill Nye! I love this channel.

[youzernejm]

The Phawx has a nice video explaining how 40Hz is the sweet spot because maths. Short version is, if you're locked to the refresh rate, you are running 33% more frames per second. However, those frames last 25ms - which is between 30fps and 60fps gaming. It's a bit of a brain bender since we're pretty much wired to talk about fps, but once you figure out that what we perceive is frame times, it's easier to understand the math behind 40Hz gaming.