Hi all, How to extend laptop battery life? Here are some more tips to *improve your notebook's battery life*:
1. If you do not use your laptop for extended periods of time (a week or more), remove the battery pack from the laptop. 2. Do not expose the battery to high heat or freezing temperatures. Do not leave your battery in your car in the summer. Hot batteries discharge very quickly, and cold ones can't create as much power. 3. Make sure to plug your laptop charger adapter into a UPS and not directly into a power outlet or surge protector. 4. If you have a nickel-metal hydride battery, completely drain and recharge the battery once a month to maximize its capacity to hold a charge. 5. Fully charge new battery packs before use. New pack needs to be fully charged and discharged (cycled) a few times before it can condition to full capacity. 6. For laptops that work as Desktop Replacement, the battery should be re-installed every 3-4 weeks and allowed to fully discharge. 7. Leaving a battery in a laptop while using an electrical outlet for long periods of time will keep the battery in a constant state of charging up and that will reduce the life cycle of the battery. Battery-saving sleep modes: Should I use *Stand By or Hibernate* *Standby mode* Use standby to save power when you will be away from the computer for a short time while working - your monitor and hard disks turn off, all applications and open files are stored in RAM. When you want to use the computer again, it comes out of standby quickly, and your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. Regards, Vikram On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Vikas Gorur <[email protected]> wrote: > > Raghavan, > > As I understand, Li-ion batteries can last for a fixed number of > recharge cycles. However, it you deplete the battery to only 60% or > so, it "doesn't count" as a recharge cycle (I don't know about this in > any more detail). > > So for optimum battery life you should either run it on AC power for > most of the time and keep the laptop cool (as Joy suggested), or > deplete it to 60% and charge again. > > P.S: I used to obsess over battery life for a while, but then got fed > up with worrying about all the factors and just stopped caring. Li-ion > batteries have a limited life, and *will* deplete no matter what you > do. I just resigned myself to it :) > > Vikas > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
