smartbay battery ?

Ok, so I'm charging the batteries, main battery is at 100%, and SB battery is on 83%.

When I click on the battery icon by the clock, it says that the main battery is 100%, plugged in and charging. The 2nd batter (SB) says 83%, plugged in and not charging.

I have let my computer just sit there, but it won't charge more than 83%.

Am I doing something wrong?

Also, the bottem of the SB battery has this button with 4 led lights by it, what is that for?

Thanks guys.

 

The button and LED lights when pressed will light up to show you the charge level, as there are 4, one will be 25%/50%/75%/100%.

 

Dont have a SB battery, but cant you just take out the main battery and simply charge the SB?
Also, the button on the bottom of the battery is for indicating the amount of life in the battery. The main battery has one too

 

not sure why the charge only goes to 83%, maybe it isn't calibrated properly yet.

as for the LEDs and button, if you press the button, the number of LEDs that light up will give you an estimate of how much juice the battery has left (with four LEDs: 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, or no charge). your main battery should have this feature too, but with five LEDs.

 

Ok, Problem solved, it is charging now, thanks for the help.

 

i read somewhere that there was conflicts with having them both charging at the same time and/or the reading levels.
have you taken out the main battery and just let the SB charge?

 

fine...solve it before i post...see if i care...

 

Haha yeah, sorry next time I'll try to wait longer.

I can't believe it took you 4 whole minutes to post that sort a messege.

 

lmao....
i was multitasking at the time...

 

mine has done this once as well but if I recall correctly a restart and or reseating the battery fixed the problem

 

Can I clarify something around here?

Batteries charge slower the more charged they are. therefore, it takes less than an hour to reach 80% (ish), but takes several hours to charge the final 20%... (again, ish)... Therefore, Phoenix being the clever programmers they are (they made the BIOS), organized the charging system to optimize the charge over time. therefore, if you start at zero on both batteries, it would take (for the sake of argument let's say this is all true) an hour to charge one battery to 80%ish. another hour to get the second battery to 80%ish. you'd then have a combined 160% (in theory) of charge, rather than a single battery, which would likely have only charged to 90%ish in two hours.... after achieving the optimal charge in the minimal amount of time, it then charges the batteries to their full capacity, this process can take upwards of 4-5 hours. (again, assuming, actual charging times could be 2-3, I'm just using samples to demonstrate the point)...

It's also important to note that it would take the LONGEST amount of time to get from 99% to 100% (the real 100%). this particular percentage taking longer than any other percentage. combine that with the inherent flaws in the 'battery level' sensors, which are susceptible to memory effects, where they can read a battery level as higher than it actually is, due to said effects, and the actual time it would take to get from a reported 99% to a real full charge is actually exponentially larger than any other percentage.

to demonstrate this, i'll work with two sets of percentages. the first set is the reported percentage, the second, the real percentage. when the reported percentage is 99%, the real percentage of charge could be somewhere around 97%, however, the sensor, being unable to accommodate for it's inherent flaws, is completely unaware of this (though the sensors are BETTER than they used to be, they're still inaccurate). the system will not stop charging the batteries until they stop accepting new charge. this happens when the real percentage charged is at 100%, where the reported percentage charged would reach 100% long before the battery is ACTUALLY fully charged. therefore, in theory, you could sit at 100% and charging for quite a long time.

My point here is, for any battery to be 100% and charging, is very normal. for the system to charge the battery to 83%, then charge the other battery to 83% before finishing the charge on the first, is smart.

Everything you're experiencing is very much so normal.

I don't know why everyone panics so much.

 

hmmm - taking a stab in the dark here..
but maybe they panic since they do not know what you just explained..

 

Maybe panic isn't the correct word to use.

When you don't know the answer, you ask the question.

 

perhaps I'm just more patient and observant than most.

I found out most of that from watching the power properties section of thermofan when I had it installed... I watched the system continue to charge the battery until the flow of power to the battery dropped to zero... despite the fact that it had been at 100% for quite some time.

but again, I'm observant and patient... usually.