subject: How to protect the battery of your laptop [print this page] How to protect the battery of your laptop
We all know that battery is a very important part of laptop. It can be even said that life of battery decides the life of your laptop, so how to protect your battery of laptop is very important during the process of using the laptop. Although the life of a battery is limited, using it in a correct way will help to extend the life of laptop.
First of all, you should activate your battery. You should repeat 3 times of complete charge. Complete charge is that you should use up the electricity at one time and recharge it for 12 hours when the remaining electricity is just 3% of total electricity. Overcharge and over discharge will cause bad short the life of battery which is a very important point you should pay attention to. Therefore, when using the battery of your laptop, you had better charge it in time and avoid of discharging it. Then, every battery has limited life just life people. Usually, a battery can be charged and discharged for 300 to 400 times and some improved one may be used for 800 times. Every time you discharge the battery, the life of it will be reduced, so you had better cut the times of using battery and use alternating current. Besides, if you is used to using alternating current, it is suggested to recharge and discharge the battery for every one and a half months. Furthermore, battery should not be placed in environment which has a very low temperature or super high temperature. The best storing temperature for it is 10 to 20 cent degree. At the same time, you can dim the brightness of the screen and it will also hurt your eyes if seeing a too bright screen for a long time. Too much programs start at one time will also waste a lot of electricity. And external devices, such as USB devices, PC card modems and Fire wire, will increase the burden of battery.
Except what mentioned above, there are still many tips for protecting your battery of laptop, for example, you can turn down the volume when listening to the music or do not play games with a laptop. Paying attention to these small tips will help to extend the life of your battery and laptop and dealing with these details properly will give you lots of benefits.
