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    Vaio Z VPCZ1 - Extended Battery Sheet?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by woox, Nov 21, 2011.

  1. woox

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    If I recall correctly, the VPCZ1 has a "large capacity" battery but not a sheet battery available.

    Standard: VGP-BPS20
    Extended internal: VGP-BPL20
     
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    Approx how long is the charge/extra life for VGP-BPL20 actually? Sony says x1.5 times but we all know thats grealy exaggerated.
     
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    ^It isn't exaggerated it all. It's 50% higher capacity, why wouldn't it give you 50% longer run time?
     
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    I'm selling a slightly used one so shameless plug. Check here for details. Its' rated at 7800mAh which is 1.5x original capacity. It greatly improves the runtime and allowed me to leave the a/c adapter at home and run it for a whole day at school.

    Very small weight penalty and the hump provides a nice tilt to the keyboard. I highly recommend it.
     
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    I am planning to go on like a 20 hour flight next month, and I wanted to buy a extended battery for the plane ride. I plan to play Skyrim and Assasains creed revelations for that 20 hours :p (well maybe like 10-15 hours lol!).

    Do you think this extra battery can support me playing a video game that long?
     
    woox, Nov 27, 2011
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    Maybe you can do word processing on the extended battery for 6 hours... maybe game for 1 hour.
     
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    Are you referring to the battery life of the standard, extended or both? I have both and will give you my experience with the extended range battery, which is exactly 1.5X the life of the standard one, assuming both have 0% degradation and begin 100% charged.

    I don't game, ever, but here are some representative #s I've recently achieved

    Word processing/MS Office, all radios off, minimal multitasking, screen brightness 50% - 6-7 hrs.

    Same conditions as above but instead streaming 720 video onto Z screen from SSD using Intel gpu: 3-4 hrs

    Same conditions but streaming 1080p video to HDTV via HDMI with no image on native screen - 2-2.5 hrs

    If you bring two fully charged batteries, one std, one extended, multiply those numbers by 1.5

    I would think if you are on that long a plane flight, it would be a newer aircraft that has AC power at the seat, no?
     
    lovelaptops, Nov 28, 2011
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    are you kidding me? you might need about 6 extend batteries.
     
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    Most flights overseas have AC outlets. I flight Delta to TPE somewhat regularly and just plug in, although I'm in business class.
     
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    And if you're not in business class, you can always bring a long extension lead :)
     
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    Lol, walk onto the plane with a 150ft extension cable :D
     
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    As funny as that is, I do believe many (if not most) transcontinental flights have A/C power even in the slum cabin ;) I would check with your carrier.
     
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    So one of my flights has a EmPower port? What is this? Is this strong enough (give me enough voltage) for me to play a PC game on my laptop?
     
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    You'll need a power inverter with an em-power adapter (either as a single unit or by buying an inverter with a cigarette lighter adapter and then buying separately a cigarette lighter adapter-empower cable).

    It's not amazingly efficient as you're going 15v DC->AC->20v DC but there's not much else you can do.

    Something like this might be fine:
    http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Po...2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1323855063&sr=1-2
     
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    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    the XP18000 sounds like a good idea, except it might charge your laptop maybe once over, and mines... just failed a month ago (no warranty because i bought it off ebay) so... ymmv. Personally as a student, i thought it'd be helpful, but i just ended up bringing my power adapter as it was as heavy and more reliable
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Dec 14, 2011
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