subject: Laptop Battery Care Tips [print this page] There are always many friends asking questions about laptop battery, actually, I always insist that there is no need to make a conscious effort to care about your battery. Since the battery is just an essential accessory of the laptop, it is enough to protect the battery properly. Otherwise the laptop battery remains in good condition while the laptop going to die doing nothing more than as a bargaining chip in selling a second-hand notebook.
You can recharge your laptop"s battery whether the battery is fully drained or not. Especially if your laptop is using a lithium-ion battery, it makes no difference. And you can remove it before running the computer on AC power or not as you like. The circuit controller in laptop computer is much better than in mobile phone. The controller will cut off the resonance charging circuit when the battery is fully charged and charge the battery repeatedly with low current to keap the battery in good status. Computer with well disigned circuit controller only charge the battery until available battery life is under 95%. So you don"t need to worry about your battery is charging all the time.
To store a battery for long periods of time, you should ensure that the charge is nearly 40 percent, remove the battery and store it in a cool, dry place away from heat and metal objects. Exercise the battery at least once every two to three weeks.
There is another question people often ask about: whether it is necessary to calibrate the battery, and how to do it. The answer is yes. Each time you discharge and recharge your battery, you will lose a very small amount of this capacity. To help your battery recover its capacity, you need to recalibrate it. It is necessary to recalibrate the battery every 1-2 months. Some Laptops, such as Compaq and IBM, provide calibration function in BIOS and Power Management Program, if you have a laptop of those brands, you can follow the prompts to recalibrate the battery. For those whose laptops don"t have that function can do it follow below steps:
1. Plug the computer into an electrical outlet and let the battery charge fully.
2. Unplug the computer and use it normally until the battery is so drained that it goes into sleep mode automatically. (The battery really has a small reserve left, but if that is used up then data will be lost because the computer will shut down completely.)
3. Repeat Step 1: Fully recharge the battery.
If calibration doesn"t help, you should consider to buy another battery, we recommend finding discounts on canadabatt.com, just make sure you pick up the right laptop model and battery partnumber.
