1. Activating a new laptop battery

Generic manufacturers is a new notebook for the first time in the boot with a battery should be 3% of electricity consumption at this time, should not use an external power supply, but the battery's power than is used up, until the shutdown, and then add Power charge. And then also to the battery charge after the exhaustion of power, charging time must be more than 12 hours, repeated three times to do in order to activate the battery.

2. Exhausted after the electricity charge and avoid charging laptop battery time is too long

Whether the use of notebook lithium or Ni-MH electric power, it must be exhausted before sufficient power (electricity consumption of less than 1%), which is to avoid the best way to the memory effect. Li-electric memory will have the same effect, but its memory effect than Ni-MH only a small number, only to use the full power of the battery after charging it to be. Part of the charge, could lead to discharge the battery inside the batteries of different chemical properties, so the battery performance will back down.

Recommendations on the laptop battery every few months to carry out a deep discharge the battery in order to optimize performance. This is accomplished through use of battery-powered, the battery capacity has been used to 0% (this time the system will automatically enter standby or hibernation state, according to the BIOS settings in different). And then connected to the AC adapter has been full of up to 100%.

3. As far as possible to reduce the use of the number of laptop batteries

The number of battery charging and discharging a direct bearing on the life of each charge a battery to retire a step forward. We proposed to make full use of external power supply, the use of an external battery power will be removed. If you often several times a day in Plug Power, and notebook computers equipped with a battery, battery on the greater damage. Because each access to external power supply is equivalent to charging a battery, battery on the nature of the Zheshou.

Ni-Cad batteries suffer from what's called the 'memory effect'. This means that if a battery is continually only partially discharged before re-charging, the battery 'forgets' that is has the capacity to further discharge all the way down. To illustrate: If you, on a regular basis, fully charge your battery and then use only 50% of its capacity before the next recharge, eventually the battery will become unaware of it's extra 50% capacity which has remained unused. Your battery will remain functional, but only at 50% of its original capacity.