I like to work for a longer period of time with my laptop plugged in, is that ok or will I be damaging something?
There is a ton of improper usage on laptop batteries while many people aren’t fully aware of the best way to take care of one to preserve its life!? Plugging in your laptop is perfectly alright, but there are some steps to take before you leave it running for hours.
1) Take the battery out!? It’s always the first thing I do before I plug in my laptop for hours on end.? A lot of new/old batteries have Lithium-Ion? batteries that lose their charge capacity every time they are re-charged.? While you may not think your laptop is charging after it reaches 100%, it’s secretly fooling you!? There’s been some myth about certain laptops having smarter charge systems where the battery goes idle after it charges up so it does not lose capacity, but its still a great precaution to take before leaving your laptop plugged in.
2) Sufficient cooling.? Since your laptop will be on for hours, make sure it’s still in a cool environment with little obstruction to the computer fans.? A great investment is a laptop cooler which puts a fan underneath your laptop so it remains cool and quiet while you work!
4 Responses
Tony
February 5th, 2009 at 8:34 am
1Is it okay to install/remove a laptop battery while the laptop is running?
G karthick
April 6th, 2009 at 11:07 am
2Useful one 🙂
Jivesh
July 1st, 2009 at 4:26 am
3Hi Hemal,
Thanks for the advice. I have been searching for the proper usage of the batteries, but most of the other places I have checked say that’s its okay to keep the laptop plugged in with the battery intact. I do find it specious, as I am myself a student of electronics engineering and do know a little bit about the charging-discharging cycles of the battery. It is pretty simple that right in the end of the 99-100% range, the battery might be going through the charging-discharging cycle repeatedly, but I want to have some concrete proof about it. Isn’t there any website, where they discuss about such topics from a more technical view?
Minh Khoi
February 5th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
4I heard that the life of Lion battery usually takes around 500 cycles of charge or whatever…
I’m wondering if we can fool it by letting the battery be charged at the level of 10 % and stop charging at 90 % only, thus make it cannot reach 100% for creating another cycle and the battey still have more remaining cycles ?! Is it right ?
However I’m not sure about my idea, any expert know exactly about the cycle of charge on Lion battery, please give me an advice !
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