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Battery Power And Thermals

ventaphobia edited this page Apr 23, 2026 · 1 revision

Battery Power And Thermals

Battery data is modeled in BatteryInfo and formatted through BatteryDetailFormatter. Data includes charge, source, status, cycle count, health, voltage, amperage, power watts, temperature, capacities, and time remaining where macOS provides it.

Power data is used both for user-facing visibility and fan-control heuristics. Smart and custom fan modes can treat high watt draw as an effective temperature boost, which lets Core-Monitor respond to sustained load before raw temperature alone catches up.

Thermal readings come from SMC keys and ProcessInfo thermal state. The app must be honest about missing sensors: unsupported keys should show unavailable/fallback messaging rather than pretending exact measurements exist.

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