laptop battery life (15 tips)....

           Nowadays Lithium-Ion batteries are used in laptops. The performance of a battery decreases with time, have to replace within 1-3 years.

     So there are some tips to increase your performance of the battery. Easy to follow.

• If possible always plug the battery.         

               You can charge your battery only about 1500 times. After that it will be a dead battery. In new laptops when the battery is fully charged, it works using the normal current. There's no use of the battery at that time if plugged.

    But be careful:

          Normally there are 6 or 9 cells in a battery. From these, the last cells work when the battery is on it's last battery readings (ex: 9%, 15%, 20%). To make them usable, you have to use the battery until it lost its charge(ex: 7% with warning message). You should do this once in 10-12 days.

• Clean the battery contacts

Use a cloth moistened with alcohol.Do it once every 2-3 months.  

• Sleep the laptop if you go away for 2-3 hours.

• Hibernate it if you go away for 10-12 hours. (But always don't do this)

• Restart  the laptop once a week.

• Don't shut down the laptop as a hobby(always don't shut down). 

• Don't put it on standby position always. It will absorb a lot of  battery power to keep ready to go when you open the cover. (So hibernate it)

• Dim your screen to the lowest level as you can.

• Exercise the battery

               When fully charged use it at least once every 2 weeks.

• Remove CD/DVD s ,USB drives.

              When you don't have the power supply by normal current, when you are running on battery do not use CD/DVD. Remove them, if you are not using.Because the power consumption is very high even without use of it.                 

• Keep the laptop cool....

                 For that make sure that your cooling fan is working correctly.

•  Disable Bluetooth.
• Turn down the volume level or mute it when you are not using it.

• If you are not using the web browser ,then close it.
       It runs in the background to get information even if you are not using it.
• Once every 3 months fully discharge your battery.
  
        Use the battery power to run the laptop. Do not plug it. Then the laptop will hibernate.Then keep it about 5 hrs or more.So the battery will fully discharge.
          Then plug it until the battery get fully charged and use it as you wish.......