How to discharge and charge laptop battery ?
A typical charge and discharge cycle is as follow:
1. Install your newly
laptop battery into your laptop
2. Disconnect the AC adapter and use your laptop until it itself shuts down. In this situation, the battery is fully discharged.
3. Connect the AC adapter and your
laptop battery should start charging.
4. Charge until the battery is full.
Repeat this charge and discharge cycle a few times and your battery pack will be conditioned to perform at full capacity.
Note: Please do not overdischarge and overcharge your battery.
The New Battery Isn't Charging. Is it defective battery ?
New batteries are shipped in a discharged condition or with very low
capacity and must charged before use. We generally recommend an
overnight charge (approximately twelve hours). Refer to the user's
manual for charging instructions. Rechargeable
laptop batteries
should be cycled (fully charged and then fully discharged) three to
five times initially to allow them to reach their full capacity. (Note:
it is normal for a battery to become warm to the touch during charging
and discharging).
Note: New batteries are hard for the device to charge; they have never
been fully charged and are therefore "unformed". Sometimes the device's
charger will stop charging a new
laptop battery before it is
fully charged. If this happens, remove the battery from the device and
then reinsert it. The charge cycle should begin again. This may happen
several times during the first
laptop battery charge. Don't worry; it's perfectly normal.
How to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life
Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you're constantly
looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your
battery going for as long as possible? Here are 5 easy ways to do so.
Hopefully it would be a little help for you!
1. Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work - less
demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your laptop battery.
Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it
regularly. (but not while it's on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better
built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple
systems.
2. Dim your screen - Most laptops come with the ability to dim your
laptop screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling
performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to
squeeze out some extra
laptop battery juice.
3. Cut down on programs running in the background. Itunes, Desktop
Search, etc. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life.
Shut down everything that isn't crucial when you're on
laptop battery.
4. Cut down external devices - USB devices (including your mouse) & WiFi drain down your
laptop battery.
Remove or shut them down when not in use. It goes without saying that
charging other devices (like your iPod) with your laptop when on
battery is a surefire way of quickly wiping out the charge on your
laptop battery.
5. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory
your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory. Virtual memory
results in hard drive use, and is much less power efficient. Note that
adding more RAM will consume more energy, so this is most applicable if
you do need to run memory intensive programs which actually require
heavy usage of virtual memory.
Laptop Battery Tip
We don't just offer the typical cheap laptop batteries that you may find
from other e-retailers, we pride ourselves with providing our customers
with the most cost effective solution towards
laptop battery
replacement without sacrificing quality. All laptop batteries and AC
adapters will meet or exceed OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)
specifications. Every that is available on our website is also
guaranteed to look, fit, and perform just like your original
laptop battery
(and usually better). The only real difference is the price. You don't
have to pay a ridiculously high price just for a laptop battery. We
produce over 95% of the
laptop batteries, laptop chargers,
laptop chargers and other products that we sell. There's also no middle
man for us to pay. Lower cost for us translates into lower prices for
you.
