How to charge the laptop
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Do you know how to properly handle the battery of your laptop? Do not keep permanently connected to an outlet? Giving the battery discharge to the "reds" mark and again fully charged? The bottom line is that such strategies are in fact harmful to the laptop battery. It's time to learn how to recharge your mobile each other correctly.
Isidor Buchmann - CEO of Cadex Electronics. The company develops and manufactures battery chargers, as well as tools rapid testing and diagnosis of batteries, including for industrial purposes. In addition, the company supports research Battery University - an educational web project, designed to make more information available about the proper and most efficient use batteries.
In his interview with the resource Wired Isidor Buchmann told about the major and widespread error, which allow users of portable computers.
Laptop battery can not be charged up to 100% of its maximum capacity. Ideally charging should start at 40% charge level, and off when the charge indicator 80%.
This significantly increases the battery life - in some cases by more than 4 times. The reason for this is the principle of the lithium-polymer batteries: in each cell voltage proportional to the level of charge. Close to the maximum staffing level indicator voltage battery wears out faster, which ultimately leads to a reduction in the number of charge cycles and accelerate the reduction of the battery capacity.
Battery University study clearly show the accuracy of the statements: while charging the battery to 100% regularly produces 300-500 cycles, while for charging to 70% of the number of cycles increases to 1200-2000.
Unfortunately, maintain correct amplitude battery can be extremely difficult. You can not constantly monitor the battery indicator during operation. Finding appropriate application for OS X, and Windows does not give a positive result. Some manufacturers supply the laptops special software that limits the level of charge, but do not all. The only optimal solution here can be a measurement of the time required for charging and discharging the battery to the correct level. In the future time periods fairly easily monitored using any timer notification.
However, if you have your own idea of working for the automation on / off charge or at least more convenient tracking, do not hesitate to share them in the charge level comments.