Power Issues

[Bombalur]

My laptop is getting to the grand old age of 5, and now sometimes, my battery doesn't seem to work at all...

It chooses randomly whether the battery decides to work, but usually performing a SNES cartridge trick (taking it out and blowing on the contacts) seems to work when it has decided not to work.


Do you think its just age beginning to show? I have looked after this laptop and hardly ran it off the battery at all (firm believer in the power cable).

[gray.woodford]

do you run it off the power cable with the battery in or do you take the battery out when you use the power cable?

[k3vst3r]

leave battery in whilst running off power cable?

[Bombalur]

i always have done, is that a wrong practice, as i heard its not?


I just meant I have never repeatedly ran it down every day.

[alexnifty]

So I guess you don't run the battery down very often? Usually it is recommended to run the battery flat once a month and do a full recharge. This extends the useful life of your battery.

Even if you had been doing this I think 5 is quite a venerable age for a battery so you are probably looking at a replacement anyway.

[k3vst3r]

kills battery leaving it in whilst on power cable, it's the heat what causes it. When you run it off power cable its constantly charging the battery an making it hot.

[Bombalur]

Yeah that is what i was thinking, I probably have flattened it once a month, its just weird how it works fine some times and not others, makes me think its a connection inside.


kills battery leaving it in whilst on power cable, it's the heat what causes it. When you run it off power cable its constantly charging the battery an making it hot.


Its not constantly charging if you have a decent controller, as it will charge it til full and then just run off the power without touching the battery...

or thats how it should work anyways...

[SilveR_172]

I would say if you want the battery to last long, then when the laptop is running off the wall take the battery out as its just charging tgr battery and details charging which is doing more harm than good if the laptops about 5 years old I would bet its not a new style of battery cell u forget what they're called but its what i searched for when buying the muisses a new laptop

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[k3vst3r]

Here read this study http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
Hotter laptop runs quicker you kill the battery simple as

[Bombalur]

Thanks for all the help guys...

I'll just accept it for what it is and put in the fact that the battery is dying.


Also my laptop does run hotter and hotter so no surprise my battery dies!

[gray.woodford]

i always have done, is that a wrong practice, as i heard its not?


I just meant I have never repeatedly ran it down every day.
leaving battery in with power cable kills your battery life big time. Best to just unplug the battery and run off the power cable if you are able to power it like that then plug the battery in when you want to charge for taking it out and about.

get a new battery and it should be fine

[k3vst3r]

From the article


The worst condition is keeping a fully charged battery at elevated temperatures, which is the case with running laptop batteries. If used on main power, the battery inside a laptop will only last for 12-18 months. I must hasten to explain that the pack does not die suddenly but begins with reduced run-times.

[DoubleTop]

if you've never taken off the covers and blown out the fans and generally give the entire thing a blast with some compressed air, a five year old laptop will really benefit from it. I clean mine out yearly as it lowers the clock speed when it runs hot. Battery I do the use on the sofa once a month to drain the battery, or a lot of the time I run on battery it's simply just because I forget to plug in the docking station :)

Compressed Air (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Fans%2C+Heatsinks%2C+Coolers/Accessories/Hi+Point+Air+Duster+-+Blast+away+dust+and+crumbs+from+your+keyboard+?pr oductId=38843)

DT.

[Bombalur]

Yeah i think its time for my laptop to get some TLC.


Thanks for all the help guys