Laptop Battery Life Tips

Battery maintenance has been a hot topic for laptop users, but many errors in fact and there’s the final analysis, comes from two aspects, one is “thinking does not keep up with the nickel-metal hydride batteries to lithium batteries of change”, the other a more funny, from the phone, because the phone is the first contact most users re-charge the battery using the equipment, so will be granted an extension of the phone to a laptop computer habits body.

Misunderstanding: bought laptop need to repeatedly charge and discharge times to activate the Presario CQ70 Battery.

Unless you buy a laptop is more than one year of product inventory, otherwise it would not have to do this, because now the battery cell when the factory had already been activated, and the batteries of laptop batteries in the package as when they go through a rather to activate the test, so you get the hand of the battery, had already been activated, and do three charge-discharge process is unnecessary to increase battery consumption.

Myth: The first charge must be sufficient enough for 12 hours

This early who do not have the battery control circuit model is applicable to nickel-metal hydride batteries, but for now has a smart charge and discharge control circuit of notebook Presario C700 Battery, it was a joke, when the laptop battery is fully charged, the charging current will be automatically cut off , even if you continue to charge 120 hours, the state would not be any change, in general, even the slowest charging machine, six hours is completely filled, the rest of the “charge” is just a waste of their time. Instead, it should get a new machine when the first rechargeable battery shine.

Myth: The battery requires periodic calibration, complete charge and discharge once a month.

Strong memory effect for nickel-metal hydride battery, which is an essential task, but for the lithium battery, the cycle is too frequent, and lithium, although not completely eliminate the memory effect, but has greatly reduced the memory effect, if you use the battery is frequently, then you should discharge the battery to the relatively low (about 10 ~ 15%) recharge, but if the discharge to the open machines are not even (0 ~ 1%), belongs to the lithium batteries have a greater depth of injury discharge , in general, once every two months this operation on it. If you rarely use the battery, then every 3 months as long as the first such operation on it.

Myth: correction can enhance the battery capacity

The so-called correction, is when the Presario V3000 Battery ‘s actual capacity and the capacity control circuit records in a different time, a depth of battery charge and discharge operation, the control circuit to record, so close to the battery of the actual situation, which is a manifestation of the true capacity of Dianchi operations rather than enhance the capacity factor here is the battery’s actual capacity, if the battery’s actual capacity than the capacity of the control circuit to record high, correction can make the battery appear to increase the capacity, if the battery’s actual capacity than the control circuit the capacity to record low, the correction will reduce the battery capacity seems, this is why many people are debating the reasons for correction effect, remember that the true correction is to make the battery capacity is presented, eliminating between battery and control circuit bias, as demonstrated by the capacity will increase or decrease, this is the state of the battery itself, rather than determined by your correction. Correction is likely because the battery discharge when the depth of the injury, but greatly reduced capacity.

Myth: You can also use compatible chargers

Notebook power Acer laptop battery pack consumption is much larger than cell phones, the most extreme cases, the power required to charge the battery while the machine running at full speed and meet the required power supply, laptop charger is generally not compatible, because each type of voltage, current, or even interfaces are different, can be common in a variety of notebook “compatible charger” is likely more expensive than the original charger, even if the same interface, if the voltage and current below the nominal value of the machine, the machine working at full speed when the battery may not be able to obtain sufficient charge current, which is a great damage to the battery. If the voltage and current much less than the nominal value, and even found it impossible to boot or will boot but will not charge, so the best time to choose the power to choose, and first wife the same, I can not find it, please note that a certain voltage and current to comply with the nominal value of the machine, the interface with the plant’s different products are generally the same, but the voltage and current may be different, be sure to pay attention to this point!

Myth: battery needs to be charged (or put photovoltaic) preserved

Whether full or shine, in fact, are not correct, put long-term preservation photoelectric Apple laptop batteries will lose their activity, and even lead to the control circuit protection self-locking and can not re-use, full power will bring long-term preservation security risks, the best method of preservation is to discharge to 40% and then save, fear of moisture and high temperature lithium battery, it should be placed in a cool dry place, but the temperature not too low, otherwise the capacity will be greatly reduced, about 20 degrees Celsius is the ideal storage temperature.

Seven Mistakes: battery die, you can also change their own batteries

Many people change the battery is so deadly, some manufacturers seem to do so long expected, and many brands of laptop batteries are designed with self-locking function, once the batteries out of the control circuit, the circuit enters the self-locking state, Only the use of specific tools in order to unlock, before the control circuit will not work, that is the same scrap batteries, Toshiba  laptop batteries are not free to change the batteries, you have to change batteries if not, please remember to find a special battery maintenance company to do the job, he spent trouble for small, that effort also failed, after the frustration and depression is the most miserable.

Myth Eight: After 99% has less than 100% charge, charge and will continue to bomb burst ®

Laptop battery is almost no chance of explosion, which led up to the issue of shell melting heat, but rarely cause fire was reported a few incidents, the fact is, when the production process bad, cause a short circuit in the use of lead, even if this Most of all kinds will be short-circuit protection circuit disconnects the battery circuit in greater damage will not, except in the protection of the circuit before the batteries short-circuit (before the COMPAQ laptop batteries caused the explosion is such a time should be), so I come in contact with things in the notebook 3 years ago, only saw two cases. Instead, this sort of thing a lot of mobile phones, after all, or the battery quality problems, the phone has a large number of low-quality assembly of the battery, and laptop computers almost never sold such a battery, because there is no model which has a large enough to warrant the produce compatible battery.

The reason why, after charging to 99% less than 100%, often because the hp compaq 6515b battery control circuit of the records and the deviation of the state of the battery itself, the battery has not reached the record of the voltage control circuit, so the charge control circuit has power, in fact, battery already full, this problem can usually be resolved by the correction, but even without correction has nothing to do, because most of the charging circuit will not be filled in automatically after a long time off, even intelligent automatic refresh 99% of the current record is 100 %, even if the design has been kept a fool, but also because the current is very small at this time without causing harm.

The current laptop batteries are basically the temperature detection circuit, when the battery temperature is too high, the control circuit disconnects the battery would most likely force to prevent further temperature rise, so explosive charge to such a situation occurred in the notebook computer battery no less likely in the lottery jackpot.

No matter how scientific maintenance measures, the battery will always be aging, like how the magic of cosmetics and beauty care becomes an old woman can not stop, just slow it up, the only way to avoid aging of the battery is not used (so many people Choose the battery down), but this laptop but have lost that sense of … … the battery is always used as the length of time and aging, is actually a consumable, for almost all manufacturers of notebook computers regardless of the host how long the warranty, the battery usually only guarantee for one year.

If you care to do is put in place to be used once a week the digital camera battery is approximately one year after the remains in 60% to 70% capacity, probably my own battery is the case, if you really think that looked increasingly haggard battery is a kind of torture for you, the best method is to take down without, and pray do not kick or power plugs, or is it to buy one as a backup, as long as the battery and notebook in order to bring value and fun enough, I think they The sacrifice is worth it.

Laptop battery notebook computer can be said that the most important source of inspiration. No batteries to provide energy, it can not complete the special requirements of mobile office. Then we can at best laptop in the hands of a mobile PC Bale. The use of laptop battery maintenance and skills has become the most difficult thing for most consumers. Now in use and maintenance of laptop batteries have been different opinions on this issue, I now combine their experience and advice from a customer service center in Taiwan laptop brands, after engineers use and maintenance of the battery case in this regard to make a brief introduction, and friends will be in-depth discussion of laptop battery maintenance and daily use a number of errors to do some corrections, hoping to help our friends. However limited, the article subject to oversight also hope all friends Haihan!
 
A. After the purchase of laptop batteries for more than three times for 12 hours charging, to prevent “memory effect”

First ask a very stupid question: my friends have cell phones, right? A lot of friends in the use of mobile phones is going to be consciously or unconsciously, in accordance with the business to remind others to do one thing, that is, after the first three mobile phones to buy back the NIKON coolpix s230 battery charge is 12 hours of electricity, and then again after isoelectric used charge. The reason is because of friends to worry about their cell phone batteries have “memory effect”, the memory effect refers to the battery for a long time subjected to a specific work cycle, automatically keep this particular trend. Therefore, saying that if only 50 per battery charge % of the time to get started, then after the battery charge memory effect would be the next time only charge to 50% of the time to “charge does not go out.” In fact, this “memory effect” that the nickel-cadmium and nickel metal hydride batteries, the lithium-ion laptop batteries, memory effect is almost negligible.

Laptop Batteries

With the gradual improvement of manufacturing processes, such as lithium-ion battery charging features constant current charging time control of their depth in 4 hours, there is no need to charge the phone battery laptop battery law to get up, laptop battery has to charge , put two weeks or every month, once the laptop battery depth of discharge, the term sounds a bit scary, in fact, battery-powered, no electricity and then used directly on the computer automatically shut down on it. However, the number of times the depth of discharge should not be too frequent.

B, when using the AC adapter must first remove the battery to prevent the battery “full blast”

Currently available lithium-ion batteries used in laptops to complete 300 to 600 times (some data that can be more) of the charge and discharge process, we can calculate what their own, and now available on the market models of battery Centrino general official data more than 5-6 hours, the Pentium 4 models use the battery for 3 hours, then as a lithium-ion battery charge and discharge 600 as the standard, you can use your own laptop battery can calculate how long out. Some of my friends when using the AC adapter, the battery is worried about taking off the battery inside if he left more power, plug in the AC adapter, the results to the results start charging, causing the battery to waste their time so-called ” number of charge cycles. ” In fact, this worry is unnecessary, because laptop battery power within the state certainly can not be hundred percent, so when using the HP Pavilion dv4 adapter charge will certainly be completed. But now many CANON bp-535 battery manufacturers of laptops are designed with battery protection measures, such as IBM’s notebook is only less than 95% of the electricity will be charged when, but not absolute, that have no ability to rely entirely on the design of the notebook OEM manufacturers weak in this regard may be some. If you really are distressed that their batteries, it might come off!

Laptop battery explosion

Battery explosion appears little chance of things. But it is not absolutely not, there are lithium-ion battery lithium batteries, a control circuit between them and the management board to complete the charge and discharge control circuit if the loss of certain functions or direct failure of the sensitivity of the original, you can not effectively control the current, internal temperature batteries cause the explosion. Or the batteries inside the JVC bn-v114 battery short circuit will appear to explode. But good thing about the notebook is now available in the market of high-quality products are based abroad to buy batteries or direct other people’s batteries, the quality is relatively better. The domestic part of the lithium-ion battery manufacturers are also many imported from abroad and then proceed to manufacture batteries. So is an old saying goes, when in the selection of notebooks, as much as possible for manufacturers to consider some budget products, correct.

C, battery does not meet official standards, definitely a problem with the battery

Friends will buy a notebook of all worry about this problem. Indeed, with the birth of Centrino technology makes the laptop battery for longer standby time possible. Manufacturers of notebook computers even more marked for 10-hour “battery life standard.” In fact, this is only to attract the attention of consumers is an advertising only. Most laptop batteries can not meet the so-called “official standard”, perhaps friends remember saving technology ASUS Power 4 Gear patented technology (also upgraded version of Power 4 Gear +), M6 series of books known as the battery extended to 5.5 hours, but Asus’s sales staff told the author of the books of the time battery life also about 3 hours. Of course having said that, NIKON EN-EL10 Battery manufacturing processes for existing customers is not our problem can be resolved. So when faced battery is no “official battery using the standard” Do not be surprised when friends because of not so long time is the normal (if your laptop battery to the official standard, then please do not Paizhuan, I said most of the books.)

If the friends reached the battery standby time than the “official battery standard”, then we can still be extended by a number of ways:

1,25 ℃ ~ 40 ℃ using a standard external environment, the use of lithium-ion batteries can reach the best condition, if the temperature is too high, not only the laptop itself runs slow or even crash, and the battery in such an environment is also under will affect its efficiency. So as far as possible under the indoor environment using a laptop.

2, the less frequently used equipment disabled. Usually the best use of battery power when the interface is no need to disable the swap, such as wireless network card, printer port, infrared port, 1394 Firewire, etc., or you’ll waste a lot of battery power, the specific method is to “control panel “-” System “-” Hardware “-” Device Manager “to find they have to disable the device, and then click” Disable “on it, you need the time to be” enabled devices “, is very simple. After disabling the use of results have been very obvious, you can save a lot of power.

3, to reduce power consumption within the device. More and more CPU-frequency, high-speed hard drives will bring a lot of energy consumption, and increased heat dissipation. Therefore, no special requirements, the best use of the system or the internal or third-party software to control the drive speed, not to open too many windows and programs in order to avoid CPU overload of work, it will not only reduce SONY np-f330 battery power consumption, the other can reduce heat , in the “hot autumn” season there, this is still a bit of benefits.

D, start charging the laptop battery is very harmful

Start charging in the end there is no harm? I once saw a man turn my phone is charging, and then over that one: wow! How dare you start charging, you are not afraid to explode! ? Although it is a joke, but they reflect a lot of friends with errors. In the notebook, the previous design is that if some models now use battery-powered, so even if the plug in the AC adapter or battery-powered laptop, which is the “charge does not go” phenomenon, today’s notebook computers are not so in the design of risk, and when plug AC adapter, when the external power supply immediately turned and began to charge the battery. So now there is no need to recharge off.

E, long-term casual aside without batteries

Users the problem is often ignored. But this is not a small issue, and I talk to the laptop engineer told the author, many notebook manufacturers to recommend that users control the battery power more than 5%, such an approach is to eliminate passivation of the electrode, because the laptop battery at the factory the time had already started to slow self-discharge (to activate the battery thing has been in the workshop is complete, we do not need to worry about), a laptop is likely to be consumers at the factory six months after purchase, and the battery has discharged six months the. Here again I suggest that if long-term friends who do not use the battery and AC adapter power supply, it is best to leave the laptop battery 40% – 50% more than allowed to self-discharge power, without charge, then discharge the battery from it is easy to go wrong or even scrapped. You think, ah, self-discharge must be to release, but there is no power what you put it, ah, no problem strange!

There is also a need to pay attention to the question: if long-term battery-powered and not powered by AC adapter (such as students), put the battery in a cool dry place such as the cabinet. This approach is to avoid the humid environment, while if the whole do not, the best place to separate the battery and books, do not believe we bought the books when the attention of mobile phone and see, business is not separate from the battery and the machine placed?

F, crashed but there is no way to pull the battery

I have seen some friends before the machines will not shut down the phenomenon, even illegal shutdown do not work, Blame the great “fainted dead” system! Finally her brother directly to a second stamping a three to pull the battery with eyes closed, and heard to scream off the books. In fact, this practice is very harmful, because in the standby state, the memory is powered and working, if the rash take off the battery directly, missing data are inevitable, not in the plug when the AC adapter, CANON nb-2lh battery check , such an approach can only be a hundred more harm than good.

Buy a new battery from the first use, to daily maintenance, maintenance, preservation, need to pay attention or something?

First, the new battery to be first-time attention.

Just getting started with the battery, battery indicator sometimes not allowed to scale the table, or charging long bright lights, because the new battery could power your laptop’s own testing procedures are not synchronized.

Of course, the use of a period of time will automatically adjust, but we can make some initial settings to achieve as soon as possible.

Alarm is turned off the power express card adapter, let the battery discharge optoelectronics, and then washed. Cycle twice to the specific steps are: Start>> Settings>> Control Panel>> Power Options>> Alarm

1, when the power down to the following level, the issue of battery alarm (L)

2, when the power down to the following levels, a serious shortage of warnings issued by the battery (C)

Two choices in front of the above items of “checkmark” hook option removed. Let notebook has been discharged to a black screen. Then put two red cycle, in order to fully activate the lithium-ion batteries, and battery testing process to achieve synchronization.

It is worth noting that such methods do not use new batteries when they each such operation, only in the cheap camera batteries capacity testing procedures used under the premise is not synchronized.

Second, the daily use problems that need attention.

A how to charge and use

1. Please select a model or manufacturer specified the same type of power charger, power supply to avoid the use of no-confidence in order to avoid unstable power supply burnt notebook. Avoid the use of other packaging the power adapter package, resulting in cooling difficulties and maintain the good battery and power adapter ventilation.

2. In the cut off of state power and the battery into the computer, plug in the power supply, that is to start charging. (Note Do not connect the power adapter in the case of loading the battery, as this may lead to direct burn accidents happen laptop battery)

3. Charging time of about 4 to 8 hours in between, depending on battery capacity and the plant design are different, fully charged, the charging indicator light goes out or turn green, it is best to disconnect the power supply.

4. Best not to intermittent charging, that is not the kodak camera batteries power supply plug back and forth in a short time, it is best to charge in the off position.

5. Do not mix transformer or power supply voltage for each electronic product or charging voltage may be different, the use of error may damage the battery, the machine will be a serious burn.

6. If after charging the battery for 30 minutes then the battery may be better.

7. Current computer batteries and more lithium-ion battery-based, its biggest advantage is that there is no memory effect, so users do not have to worry about this problem, if the power can not run out of charge, but users are recommended to the system once the battery power warning insufficient, then the implementation of charging, the reliability of the battery help.

8. If the prolonged use of the power supply as power supply, it is recommended to remove the battery, a separate operation with a power supply is required to use the computer and then go into the battery.

9. Do not use battery power as the other.

10. Do not attempt to open or service batteries (other than the professionals), because the battery control circuit within the precision of violence likely to cause damage to precision circuits, laptop batteries containing lithium-ion universal laptop adapter , if used or handled properly, could explode. Available on the market today there are some core services for the maintenance of the battery, the replacement of unstable after the performance.

11. Use the battery with the key and other metals put together scattered to prevent accidental short-circuit the battery.

12. Not a bed, sofa, carpet and other soft surfaces when used in laptops have been careful not to hinder the good heat dissipation. Towels and bed will be like static electricity, and indirect damage to the notebook internal components.

13. Installation notebook comes with power management software to better play the role of the battery and protect the battery.

14. Download ECPOW Battery Manager , you can see a more convenient and efficient battery usage.

B How to save battery power

1. If the battery power for long periods, please note that maintenance. Attention to environmental temperature and humidity, do not put hot and humid places, such as: direct sunlight or fire next to the car, should be kept dry and ventilated.

2. olympus li-40b battery removal should pay attention to dust waterproof shockproof, regular position with a small brush for cleaning Department. Sometimes if the battery positions exposed to relatively easy access to a lot of dust and cause the battery to use is bad, it is recommended to use a suitable container such as carton store batteries.

3. If the term does not use batteries, rechargeable battery should be about 60 ~ 80% of the saved, and periodically remove the use to maintain the chemical activity of lithium ions, preferably about a month will do a battery charge and discharge, and then charge preservation.

4. Batteries within the battery of sophisticated electronic components and core components, to avoid falling on the ground and heavy percussion battery.

5. To avoid a collision and at a high temperature SD/TF Card battery and keep the battery clean and dry.