Laptop Battery

[falcon2000]

Hi all

To preventing the laptop battery spoil faster. Would you keep the battery attached on laptop during it powered by adaptor or take out it ?

Some said better to keep it attached when powered by adaptor but I was doubt does is truth.

If you always keep battery attached and using powered by adaptor you could check the battery condition by HW monitor :

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Look at the Full charge Capacity, does the value decreased ? also looks at the Wear Level, does it increased ?

After checked it could anyones posted in here the result ?

Thank

 

[Audiology93]

Usually I'll take it out after it is fully charged. Now my battery can still last over 2 hours after 6 years whereas my friend who has his plugged in 24/7 can't even last 30mins.

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[tx3456]

no point plugging in after battery fully-charged

 

[flaros]

Hi,
Lithium-ion batteries like the one use in laptops have a limit recharging cycles.

Each time you charge will deduct the cycles and deplete the charge it can hold.

It is not recommended to plug your laptop to power while the battery is already fully charged and it stress the battery and cause further depletion of the charge.

These are some recommendations:
1. Take out the battery and plug your laptop to power when is used at the common area most of the time
2. Charge the battery when the battery level is around 10%
3. There are studies to prolong the battery life charge when the battery level is 40% and stop charging at 80%

Some links on how to take care the battery:
http://www*pcworld*com/article/191574/long_live_your_laptop_battery*html
http://fieldguide*gizmodo*com/how-to-take-care-of-your-laptop-battery-the-right-way-1588054667

(Please replace the * with a dot for the actual link)

Hope this info is useful to you.

What if the batt cannot be removed ?
even if the batt is full and not charging, the current still pass thru. the batt still will spoilt after a year or two

 

[i.Singaporean]

What if the batt cannot be removed ?
even if the batt is full and not charging, the current still pass thru. the batt still will spoilt after a year or two

Just leave in plugged in if you can and don't purposely drain it

Lithium ion works on charge cycles so if you purposely drain to 0% then charge it up to 100%, that's one cycle

More cycle = worse battery over time

My MBP still has 95% capacity after 2 years and I leave it plugged in when at home(5 days a week)

 

[i.Singaporean]

Hi,
For laptops with non-removable batteries, you can do the following:
1. When the battery drops to around 10%, immediately connects the charger to charge the battery
2. When the battery is fully charged, disconnect the charger and run from battery

In Windows, you can change the power settings so that when the battery reaches a low percentage like 10%, initiate hibernation mode (shutdown and save current state).

When connect back to power, just press the power button on laptop and resume back from where you left off.

Lithium battery works on charge cycles

You run from 100% to 10% and charge it up purposely every time is going to ruin your battery.

 

[tungsten2]

Continuously charging even after it is fully charged is battery worse enemy.

A charge cycle is the process of charging a rechargeable battery and discharging it as required into a load. The term is typically used to specify a battery's expected life, as the number of charge cycles affects life more than the mere passage of time..

 

[PolodXude]

my experience corroborates with tungsten's point. try to drain it to 40 percent and plug in, draining to 1 percent every 30 cycles to recalibrate the software.