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Maximize your laptop battery life

Collected by www.diggingshop.com

When I first got my laptop 1 year ago , my laptop battery life was about 3 hours. Now after daily use (mostly with plug but using battery as well) it is down to 1.5 hrs which is basically useless. SO I am buying a new dell d620 battery from diggingshop.com?the battery shop suggest:

“New dell laptop battery come in a discharged condition and must be fully charged before use it. It is recommended that you fully charge and discharge your new dell laptop battery 3 times to allow it to reach its maximum rated capacity.

Rechargeable battery will undergo self-discharging when left unused.Don’t store notebook batteries completely discharged.It should always be stored in a fully charged status and kept in a cool, dry and clean place.

Fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks.With lithium-ion dell laptop batteries, partial charges and discharges are best on a regular basis. These batteries do not suffer from the memory effect.

With the use of your dell d620 battery, the battery life will be shorter and shorter.How to keep the battery a longer life is the primary problem that the computer users should pay attention to ”

It turns out that the single, most important aspect to maximizing a laptop battery life is something that I wouldn’t have thought of: matching the battery to its charger. In the diggingshop.com’s words: “Make sure your laptop battery and adapter match and you have a quality adapter.”

That, further, minimizes any manufacturing differences that may occur over time.

The number two factor in laptop battery life? Temperature.

The fact is that laptops just aren’t designed for … well, for laps. If you look at the bottom of your laptop you’ll see it probably has feet (or more likely, bumps or rubber pads) that lift it off of any flat surface you might put it on. That creates very important space for ventilation. If you block that space, with say your lap, it’s likely that you’ll be causing the laptop to run hotter than it should. If you do this regularly, you’ll likely shorten the lifespan of the laptop’s batteries.

Again, in diggingshop.com’s words: “Rechargeable dell d620 battery will undergo self-discharging when left unused.Don’t store notebook batteries completely discharged.It should always be stored in a fully charged status and kept in a cool, dry and clean place.”

Temperature cycling – allowing the laptop to become very cold and then warm, repeatedly – say by leaving it in your car overnight in cold weather regularly can also adversely impact the battery’s life.

A concern that I’ve had for a long time is whether or not leaving a laptop plugged in for extended periods of time would harm the battery. Today’s designs pretty much expect that type of usage, so it’s not the issue I was afraid it might be. Good thing, too … my laptop is plugged in and running pretty much 24×7.

Finally: “Dont use laptop battery if it is not necessary because every charge/discharge time may shorten hp compaq batterys life. .”