Is there a way to charge your extra battery seperately?

I searched for the answer to this and found nothing, I guess it's rather difficult to word properly so I apologize if it has been answered. I am ordering an NP5160 and I'd like to get an extra battery for it but I was wondering if there's any way to charge that extra battery without having it in the laptop. I have chargers like that for my cell phone and camera batteries but I've never seen anything like it for a laptop. Thanks in advance!

 

Don't think there's any available for clevo laptops

 

Nope, unfortunately there is no external charger available. You'd have to buy a second laptop to use as a charger if you were desperate, but that's a little pricey

 

but but but the second laptop also has a battery... how am I going to charge the third one?

 

Lol excellent suggestions guys. I was just informed that the laptop I want is out of stock so I guess it doesn't matter for now but for future reference: I have an old Acer laptop from when I was 16 (I'm 22 now) and it's not worth much so could I strip that apart and use the power supply thinger and battery parts to perhaps make my own? Or is that too dangerous?

 

too dangerous unless you know what you're doing, chance of the battery to break or even explode if not done properly.

sadly this is one area where clevo needs a bit of improvement, you could check out the lenovo laptops with the slice battery option which can charge both the slice battery and main battery at the same time and once both are charged you can remove the slice battery until you need it (or keep it attached unless it's too heavy)

 

I definitely wouldn't do that. The battery is most likely a different voltage and amperage and will have totally different rated loads and capacities. Lithium ion batteries can catch fire or explode if treated improperly.

 

Anything you could use?

How to charge laptop battery manually 1 | Laptop Battery Life

I could only watch the first few mins cuz my phone refused to load it for some reason

 

My 2000 Inspiron 5000e could handle two separate batteries at the same time because the CDROM drive could have been interchanged with the second battery. It all looks like downhill from that setup, mostly because batteries went on steroids in order to support beafier laptops, therefore I am not sure that they could still be contained in the 12.7mm small form factor.
Another reason would be that the battery interface may not be standardized.
I fancy all batteries sharing the same interface and having an external battery charging from the eSATA or another dedicated port.

 

I don't know if you can do this with Clevo (I assume you can) but with Dell's you can while the laptop is plugged in remove the battery and put another one in so once the battery in use is fully charge, eject it, put the spare in and continue on using your laptop while the second battery is now being charged all without shutting down.

 

You are correct, the batteries are hot swappable. For some this might help, but it doesn't help to charge both overnight, if that's necessary.