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Steam Frame needs 27-45W of power to run, and it can run off an additional battery
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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I literally just described, in the most layman's terms possible, how the BMSes of modern phones of at the very least the past decade have already been doing battery bypass. The laws of physics LITERALLY don't allow for any kind of "non-bypass" approach. If you still can't comprehend that, I'm afraid you might truly be a clinical case of mental retardation.
Again: what hurts li-ion cells is staying under voltage (i.e. being charged even at 0.000 amps) when fully charged. It's not optimal for storage to be 100% charged and not used for a long period as the full capacity means higher self discharge rate thus more cycle usage thus (slightly) quicker degradation of the cell, but that doesn't matter when the battery is regularly used and the 100% storage isn't happening continuously for months at an end.
I'm amazed that you still cant get in your head that "bypass charging" as in the (probably) technically correct definition and "bypass charging" as in the colloquially used definition are both just coexisting things.
You explained how batteries and charging works really well in your post. But you didnt really educate me because i already knew that. I just hoped that valve implements the more advanced softwarebased batterymanagement to FURTHER improve batteryhealth when the headset is constantly plugged in. EG to have option to keep the battery at 60% or to have the option to MANUALLY tell the device to bypass. But that seems to be still to complicated for a seemingly otherwise intelligent person.
edit: Just to make another point. I even googled "bypass charging" before i made my original post just to be sure i use the correct term. i clicked through 3 articles which all used bypass charging pretty much the way i meant it. So idk man.
Okay you're clearly hopeless. I'm done trying to do the equivalent of explaining quantum mechanics to a goldfish.