Top Tips to extend your laptop battery Overall Life time
Extending the Overall Life of laptop battery,
The easiest way to give your laptop battery an early death is to damage it. And the two most common causes of damage are from overheating and overloading. Here's how you prevent overheating:
- Use a cooling pad when using a notebook computer on your laptop.
- Avoid propping your laptop on a pillow, blanket, or other soft surface that can heat up.
- Clean your desk. It sounds strange, but if you have a dusty, dirty desk, that dust will get into the vents and clog the cooling fan. Once the dust is inside your laptop, it is much harder to remove. You can try blasting it out with canned air, but you run the risk of damaging internal components. You can also remove the vent and clean out the grit, but remember that taking apart your laptop can void the warranty. So clean your desk at least once a week, if not daily.
- Never store your laptop battery in a place where the air temperature exceeds 80 degrees Fahrenheit, such as a hot car or an outdoor patio.
- Consider taking your laptop battery out when using your laptop plugged into AC power. Just make sure to keep the contacts clean. If you need to clean them, use rubbing alcohol.
- For lithium ion laptop batteries, you do not need to discharge them fully and recharge constantly. Since they don't have the same "memory" as older nickel-metal hydride laptop batteries, it is actually better to discharge a lithium ion only partially before recharging. You need to do a full discharge only about every 30 charges.
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