laptop battery capacity

Bob Elzer bob.elzer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 16:48:51 MST 2009


My HP pavilion is always plugged in, once the battery is fully charged, the
light goes off telling me it isn't charging any more.
 
 
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of mike
havens
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:13 AM
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Subject: Re: laptop battery capacity


For clarification:
I think you also don't want the battery in if you only run the lap-top while
the lap-top is plugged in. Isn't one of the deals with rechargeables that it
only has a certain amount of charge time? Therefore, you don't always want
to have it plugged in and charging.



On 10/22/09, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote: 

I think you also don't want the battery in if you only run it while it is
plugged in. 



On 10/22/09, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote: 

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:44:10 -0700
Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:

yes, take it to batteries plus, and get it rebuilt.
i am also guilty of this, but the kind of batteries that are in laptops,
need
to be almost fully discharged once in a while, as lithium ion batteries need
that.

periodically, I will unplug, and let it go down to like less than 4 min
left,
and then plug it back in.

i've had 2 batteries, go out on me because of this.

jerry


>
> I realize batteries lose capacity over time, but this seems rediculous to
me
> as I have never had a laptop battery go as fast as the current one. I have
> only owned Dell laptops in the past and the batteries have lasted plenty
> long, but this HP is killing me! Just over a year old and the battery is
less
> than half the capacity at full charge!!! Hardinfo says:
>
> 2592 mAh / 6000 mAh (43.20%)
>
>
> Yikes!!!
>
> Isn't there anything that can be done to force a fuller charge ? this
sucks!
>
> nathan
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