Laptop Battery Care, What To Do?

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You have to understand that, it doesnt matter how good you care about your laptop battery, it will lose performance and one day it will die. Of course, your exploits will slow the process of aging of your battery. In warmer environments, while the laptop is used and your battery gets warm, your battery will drain energy quicker. For this reason, the number one rule is: Keep your laptop cool. Try to keep your battery in room temperature. But dont put your battery in a freezer or refrigerator. That will make your battery useless.

The second most important point is, each filling-emptying cycle (or use) of battery will reduce performance. Of course this is not surprising. However, according to the time when you compare to the first use, it will surprise you.

When users continually keep the battery pinned and connected to the electricity battery will continue to charge and discharge process. If you use a full charged battery to at previously working warm laptop, will be discharged quicker than normal. Once a predicted level charging falls (is different for each company) to provide the current laptop battery, AC adapter fills extra electricity. Laptop battery for the increasingly old, self-discharge is connected to and depending on use, will gradually increase.

Normally lithium ion batteries will perform a 600 to 800 charge/discharge cycle. This means a life between 1,5 and 3 years. As described above, when you use your laptop battery, re-filling source (AC adapter) will remain unnecessarily pinned.

As a note, most of laptop users think it is the best to fully charge the battery after fully discharged. But this case is for Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd) battery method. Today's batteries have different chemical reactions and have different characteristics.

The best charging method is when lithium ion batteries occupancy rate is between 10% and 20% thats the best time to be filled again, the healthy way to slower your capacity reduce. To charge battery when it is fully empty, this is an old method and a wrong belief. Windows operating system warn us to plug in adaptor when its the best time to charge your battery (10%, 20% etc.).
Some advises for the laptop battery usage:

1 - New laptop batteries are generally offered empty. The first filling has to be as long as possible (minimum 4 hours) and do not use the battery before fully charged.

2 If you can keep your battery cool, keep it. But that doesnt mean to put it in freezer or something like that.

3 Dont plug in battery when you are plugged in by means of an adaptor.

4 Dont wait for battery to be completely empty to charge again, that method was for old type batteries.

5 If you didnt use your battery for a while, dont try to fully charge it, use it at least its occupancy rate is 10%.

6 If you buy a backup battery, dont wait for your battery to die, because your backup battery will also die when it waits.


About the Author:
Gursel Batmaz is an experienced writer who works at a laptop related company. To learn more about laptop battery care take a look at Toshiba laptops site.



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