Remove Li-Ion battery when connected to A/C power ?

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regielya

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Whatsup guys ???

Eventually I bought the DM3-1044nr for 549$ (including tax).
The keyboard, battery life, design, screen size and performance were all perfectly suited for me, altough I was hoping to get it for around 500 (including tax).

Anyway, am I suggested to remove the battery each time it's on 100% and I'm homem, in order to minimize its over-time-degrade ??

thanks alot - Reg.
 
Idea is to unplug the power when the battery is 100 percent charged and then let it drain to almost dead before recharging it. It must go through a full charge and discharge cycle or the battery won't last as long as it should.
 
johnb35 said:
Idea is to unplug the power when the battery is 100 percent charged and then let it drain to almost dead before recharging it. It must go through a full charge and discharge cycle or the battery won't last as long as it should.
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That is what I started doing with my netbook and after a year the battery is still as good as when I first started using it.

I learned my lesson with my first laptop that I bought 3 years ago. Id always plug the laptop in without taking out the battery no matter how much charge the battery was holding. Of course, battery technology has improved a lot since then, but just to be safe I don't do that anymore.
 
discharge you mean, discharge to around 5% right ?

First time I use the laptop, do I have to charge it for 24 hours and then discharge it to 0% ?

And one more thing, what if I just unplug the battery for a few hours each time its on 100% ? (like, in the middle of a heavy photoshop work or watching HD movies), connect the A/C cord, and then re-attaching the 100% battery again?

Thanks - Reg.
 
And what if your working on something and your power goes out??? Then your laptop would shut off and you would lose all your work and possibly damage the laptop in some way. Never take the battery out, your taking a big chance in doing so. When I mean a full cycle, I mean charge it until it gets to 100 percent then unplug the charger, use the laptop until it get with a few minutes of it shutting off and recharge it.
 
Your better off doing the procedure i told you about instead of removing the battery and possibly ruining your laptop if the power should ever go out.
 
johnb35 said:
Idea is to unplug the power when the battery is 100 percent charged and then let it drain to almost dead before recharging it. It must go through a full charge and discharge cycle or the battery won't last as long as it should.
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try ang google "Lithium-ion" and "myths"
 
Well, I have just realized i got a "Lithium-Polymer 6 Cell battery". what does it mean to me that its a polymer battery ??
 
What if

You have the power supply plugged in to a battery back up, could you then run your laptop safely without a battery ? Seems to me this really could save on those charge cycles....
Don't believe anything you hear & only half of what you see
 
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It's just the chemical make-up of the battery. Li-Ion and Li-Po batteries work pretty much the same as each other, they are newer and generally now more used than their predecessors NiMh and NiCd (much better for the environment too!) You treat both of these batteries pretty much the same as each other. Li-Ion batteries don't really have the memory that older batteries do so charging it to full then using it until the battery dies is ideal but doesn't make as much difference to the battery compared to if you were using a NiMh. However, leaving a battery charging all the time does tend to damage it by overcharging which will, in turn decrease the capacity of the battery so although the memory effect isn't now a factor you still can damage it by leaving it charging for long periods of time.

I hope that helps and wasn't a waffley mess!

Found a good site that sells new laptop batteries and power supplies though that's been pretty good for advice too ...

www.powerpronto.com
 
I don't know, on a laptop a had bought 2 years ago I use to leave it plugged in all the time and after a year or so I started running it on the battery and it still lasted as long as the day I bought it.
 
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