Battery Life
Have you ever wondered how you can extend your laptop's battery life? Do we let the battery discharge to 0% every time? Should we immediately charge before it goes to zero? Is it good to always have the power plugged in? Your charging/discharging behavior plays a vital role.
I have done my own research on how to approximately delay the deterioration of laptop's battery life. It's not as rigorous as testing it with lab equipment and verifying all the numbers and the average down the third decimal points, but enough to convince myself that certain practice would defer the projected deterioration 6-month to a year later.
GROUND RULES
This is not to overwrite the fact that, given the same capacity/juice, battery life is ALWAYS in decreasing mode. In other words, it is impossible to have a battery that lasts 3 hours before, and run 4 afterwards (unless you exchange it to a higher capacity/more juice battery.) The efforts we're looking at is simply to slow down the deterioration and not to stop it. Keep in mind that average battery life is about 2 to 3 years. If you have used up a battery for that long, and retain about an hour of battery life at the end of it - that's typical.
Here it goes.
I normally wouldn't want to leave the battery lower than 40% for too long. Every once in a while (once or twice a month), I deliberately unplug and drain it to 0% to re-calibrate its reading. Battery works better at lower temperature. Say if you need to leave your battery for a vacation, discharge it and store it in the refrigerator.
With battery life down to about 45 minutes after 3 years of use, I recently acquired NuPower 65-Watt-Hour as an upgrade. It gives me a solid 3-hour run. Have you ever experienced your battery status report to be deceiving? (battery says 2 hours left but your unit blacks out after an hour). Well, this one doesn't. When it says it's going to go 3 hours, it really does last for 3 hours. Sometimes 3.5 depending on aggregate activities and continuity.
Happy upgrading and preserving battery life!
I have done my own research on how to approximately delay the deterioration of laptop's battery life. It's not as rigorous as testing it with lab equipment and verifying all the numbers and the average down the third decimal points, but enough to convince myself that certain practice would defer the projected deterioration 6-month to a year later.
GROUND RULES
This is not to overwrite the fact that, given the same capacity/juice, battery life is ALWAYS in decreasing mode. In other words, it is impossible to have a battery that lasts 3 hours before, and run 4 afterwards (unless you exchange it to a higher capacity/more juice battery.) The efforts we're looking at is simply to slow down the deterioration and not to stop it. Keep in mind that average battery life is about 2 to 3 years. If you have used up a battery for that long, and retain about an hour of battery life at the end of it - that's typical.
Here it goes.
I normally wouldn't want to leave the battery lower than 40% for too long. Every once in a while (once or twice a month), I deliberately unplug and drain it to 0% to re-calibrate its reading. Battery works better at lower temperature. Say if you need to leave your battery for a vacation, discharge it and store it in the refrigerator.
With battery life down to about 45 minutes after 3 years of use, I recently acquired NuPower 65-Watt-Hour as an upgrade. It gives me a solid 3-hour run. Have you ever experienced your battery status report to be deceiving? (battery says 2 hours left but your unit blacks out after an hour). Well, this one doesn't. When it says it's going to go 3 hours, it really does last for 3 hours. Sometimes 3.5 depending on aggregate activities and continuity.Happy upgrading and preserving battery life!
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