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    lithium battery and ac power

    Discussion in 'HP' started by wchang, Aug 3, 2004.

  1. wchang

    wchang Newbie

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    I noticed on my r3000z that the battery recharges everytime I use the AC power. Is this bad for my battery is not depleted? Will this shorten my battery life? Should I remove the battery when using AC power?
     
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  2. DaGreek

    DaGreek Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't think you should worry, now if your icon always says charging even if its been pluged in for 5 hours then something is wrong. It probably needs serice because something is wrong with the power system. Or maybe windows....if it says charging when it partly depleted and plugged back in then that is of course perfictly normal.

    Also Lithum batterys don't have memory problems as blinkme_210 said, and a full discharge recharge maybe once a month at the most is still considered good practice, but still not that important.


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  3. blinkme_210

    blinkme_210 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The beauty of Lithium Ion batteries is that it doesn't have the memory effect, so everytime you're plugging in the AC power, you're topping off the battery. However, it is still recommended that every so often you discharge(deplete) the battery, and do a full charge cycle. As for shortening the battery life, I'm not too sure, maybe someone else on here will know.

    If you remove the battery when you're plugged in, then the laptop isn't level, because the battery has the rubber feet on the bottom which support the laptop.
     
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  5. Gooseman

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    They just had an aritcle on this at PCWorld.

    The Lion batters do not have a memory as others have said. They do recomend though that you fully discharge the battery after about every 30 recharges so, as they say, the "fuel" gauge in Windows gets "reset". I don't know exactly what is meant by that statement.

    I had wondered that same thing until I read that aritcle. The article is dealing with PC and Tech Myths. Basically they take an issue and explain whether it is real or fake.

    Greg
     
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  6. Josh

    Josh Notebook Enthusiast

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    From experiance with supporting, lithium ion batteries in our notebooks and issues with said batteries. If you rarely use the battery, you will kill it. If when you do use the battery you do not fully drain it before charging it again, you will kill the battery(albiet after a much longer time than regular batteries, but you will still kill it). If you regularly drain the battery fully and then charge it fully, your battery will continue to last the full 2hrs or whatever and your battery will not die after a year.

    Josh
     
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