Best practices regarding battery use

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Olorin

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Hi everyone,

So I just bought a new replacement battery for my laptop and I want to know from the experts what I should do to prolong the battery. What I've read online is NOT to charge to 100% but rather to make sure the battery is charged to around 85% and then disconnect the charger cable. Then once it depletes to about 20% put the power cable back in.

But this is going to be super tedious. Is there a better way? Or am I misinformed? With my previous laptop I used to keep it charged to 100% almost all the time which I believe is NOT good for battery health, so I don't want to make the same mistakes but I also don't want to keep plugging/unplugging just to ensure the battery is within a particular range.

Just need your advise.
 
im sure the battery manufacturer software knows what its doing , be a man and run it totally flat every day .if the manufacturer wanted you to stop at 80 it would design the software like that , maybe it is just that and we dont know it.
 
Olorin said:
Hi everyone,

So I just bought a new replacement battery for my laptop and I want to know from the experts what I should do to prolong the battery. What I've read online is NOT to charge to 100% but rather to make sure the battery is charged to around 85% and then disconnect the charger cable. Then once it depletes to about 20% put the power cable back in.

But this is going to be super tedious. Is there a better way? Or am I misinformed? With my previous laptop I used to keep it charged to 100% almost all the time which I believe is NOT good for battery health, so I don't want to make the same mistakes but I also don't want to keep plugging/unplugging just to ensure the battery is within a particular range.

Just need your advise.
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Most laptops have software to manage this. Was surprised a few months back when Asus applied an update on their platform and it now allows me to set this. Check if yours does.
 
I have a Mecer laptop that is pretty old. I wouldn't have the foggiest clue where to look. I'm running Windows 10.
 
My Mac Air 2012 has been plugged in permanently for 11 years
Once a year I might unplug it and use it on my stoep
Battery still lasts many hours
 
I was surprised to find out that 2 of my old laptops had dead batteries even though they were plugged in 90% of the time.

Clearly they did not have a proper battery management module - it was an HP and Toshiba
 
The_MAC said:
I was surprised to find out that 2 of my old laptops had dead batteries even though they were plugged in 90% of the time.

Clearly they did not have a proper battery management module - it was an HP and Toshiba
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Why the phuck is your username @The_MAC ?
 
The_MAC said:
I was surprised to find out that 2 of my old laptops had dead batteries even though they were plugged in 90% of the time.

Clearly they did not have a proper battery management module - it was an HP and Toshiba
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My Dell Laptop battery did not last nearly as long as I hoped for, still some left but give the message, thats why a battery will never bec anything else than just a battery, unless it provides power to one led.
 
All laptops I've had in the past 10 years or so have a setting somewhere you can set.

On lenovo's run the Lenovo Vantage app and fiddle around there. There should be a 'Conservation Mode', Dells have something similar, but can't remember what it's called

Mine only charges to about 60& or so when that's on. Trick is to remember to disable it again before you travel, to charge to 100% for those occasions.
 
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