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    RE: VPCF115FM Battery

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by JDM4Life, Mar 29, 2014.

  1. JDM4Life

    JDM4Life Newbie

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    Aloha everyone, I recently purchased the 12cell Battery for Sony Vaio VPCF115FG/B VPCF115FG/B E1 VPCF115FM VPCF115FM/B 10400mah

    I wanted to know if anyone had any experience with it and of how to maximize the use of it to hopefully yield 4-6 hours on it.

    Mahalo!
     
    JDM4Life, Mar 29, 2014
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  2. alfaunits

    alfaunits Notebook Consultant

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    I doubt you have any chance of getting >4hours with that battery on that laptop. It just uses too much power. AIDA64 reports that my VPCF1 has a discharge rate of 35Wh, with the batter being about ~57Wh with full capacity. Yours is twice the size, so it's around 115Wh. That can yield 3hours of work - virtually with Idle usage.
    I do have the screen brightness on maximum, but putting it to minimum lowers the discharge rate to 30Wh, so nothing extreme (it would be on a Haswell laptop).

    So, all in all, you can get very little more than the bare minimum, whatever you do. Even if you disable BT and WiFi, put the screen to minimum, limit the CPU power (which might noe be available on your VPCF1), remove the optical, you might go down to 25Wh at best - by killing virtually everything the laptop offers.
     
    alfaunits, Mar 30, 2014
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