How to Choose and Protect Laptop Battery

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 in battery tips, laptop battery | No Comments »

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Today, I made such a topic about that notebook computer users in the use, maintenance, and repairment could sum up some experiences to exchange for better management of their laptop batteries .

  1. the regular production of laptop battery manufacturers a variety of parameters clearly marked.
  2. buy laptop battery, the best choice nickel-metal hydride batteries or lithium-ion battery.
  3. genuine batteries commonly used PC or PVC shell material is very strong, difficult to damage, the general means can not open the laptop battery.
  4. neat appearance, there is no extra burr, a certain degree of roughness of the outer surface, and feel comfortable.
  5. notebook battery into the battery slot should be around freely, and closely integrated with the machine, while attention to the battery nominal voltage and voltage to correspond to your notebook.
  6. to ensure that purchase of the laptop battery charge and discharge of its good performance.
  7. under normal circumstances the thinner laptop battery, capacity, the smaller the thicker the laptop battery capacity is also greater.
  8. choose the laptop batteries and adapters necessary to ask the dealer asked in detail about the characteristics of batteries and adapters.

If you want to extend notebook battery life, we must also carry out proper maintenance of batteries and maintenance, the following is Ikunori maintenance and maintenance of notes:

  1. to avoid laptop battery at a temperature higher than 60 ℃ or lower than -20 ℃ environment, otherwise the use of time and life will be shortened. Laptop battery charging basic method, because laptop battery characteristics vary, so it must be in accordance with manufacturers instructions manual method of charging.
  2. if not a long time the machine is best to remove the laptop battery because the case does not boot, will be a gradual loss of laptop battery power
  3. due to a general non-rechargeable batteries, lithium batteries, such as the forced charging will cause an explosion.
  4. do not laptop batteries and some metal products together to prevent such metal objects touch the battery polarity, short circuit caused by the phenomenon.
  5. laptop battery when not in use, if temporarily, you can temporarily release some of them power, but then save it.
  6. due to its chemical properties of lithium-ion battery is extremely active in response to intense, so we should not arbitrarily to its demolition. If rain, moisture, dry cloth can be dry, put in dry and ventilated place on their own or with hot air drying of about 40 degrees.

How to Preserve Laptop Battery Life

Posted on September 4th, 2009 in battery tips | No Comments »

If you are a pc user that is always using your laptop battery and on the go then you may want to purchase a higher performance battery with 9 cells. You can buy after market batteries but you may spend a lot of time looking around trying to match up a battery that fits your laptop. The best way to buy is to look up the manufacture of your laptop and input the laptop model into the website and then select a higher cell dell inspiron E1505 battery. You can also buy an extended battery from them as well. So if you have a Dell laptop then you would want to go to www.Dell.com and type in battery replacement along with your code as in Dell GD761,KD476 .and it will display the different batteries that you can buy. You can use this technique for all laptop brands on the websites.

Step 2If you don’t want to buy a better battery than you can make some changes to your settings on your laptop that will increase the battery life.

Step 3This is for Vista users

Click on start/control panel/Mobile Pc/Power Options.

Here you can select how much power you want to save but the more power you save the slower your pc becomes. (Note)that if you change the settings to power save or balanced then when your laptop is plugged into a power outlet, your laptop will still be set to a slower performance.

Step 4: Click on High Performance and click on Change Plan Settings. This is the best setting because you can fully customize how much power you can save while running of your laptop but when you plug into a power outlet your laptop will return to the High Performance Setting.

Step 5: When the High Performance Setting window pops up then click on Change Advance Power Setting and then the Power Option window will popup.

Step 6:Power Option Settings:

Here you have full control over your battery settings.

Click and expand the Hard Disk tab.

Turn off hard disk after: On inspiron E1505 battery: You can set this to the desire time that you want. I have mine set to 30min//Plugged in: Again, you can set this to the desire time that you want. I have mine set to Never because plugged in I am not using my battery.

Step 7: Expand the wireless Adapter Settings:

Power Saving Mode:

On battery: Here you can select Maximum Performance or Maximum Power Saving. If you want your internet to still be fast then select Maximum Performance but if you want to save dell E1505 battery power and don’t mind a slower internet then select Maximum Power Saving. There are two more settings that you can select to have it a Medium Power Saving and Performance.

Plugged in: You will want this to stay on Maximum Performance.

Step 8: Expand the Sleep tab:

Sleep After:

On battery: Select the time which you want it to go into sleep mode while running on the battery. I have mine set to 15min

Plugged in: I have mine set to Never

Step 9: Expand the Processor Power Management tab:

Minimum processor state.

This is how fast your laptop will be when plugged in or running on the battery

On battery: Set it to 15%

Plugged in: set it to 100%

Now expand the Maximum processor state:

On battery: you can choose 20% to save on battery but if you need more speed when running the GD761 battery you will need to increase this number to around 50%

Plugged in: Set this to 100%

Step 10: Expand the Search and Indexing tab:

Power Saving Mode:

On battery: Set it to Power Saver

Plugged in: Set it to High Performance

Step 11: Expand the Display tab:

Turn off display after:

On battery: set it to 5min

Plugged in: you can set it to whatever you want. I have mine set to 20min

These setting will turn off your screen after the given time that you set.

Step 12: When you are done click on Apply at the bottom and then on OK

Step 13: You will be back to the Change Settings for the plan: High Performance window. On this page you can adjust the display brightness:

On battery: slide the bar to the left and it will dim the screen when it is running on the battery.

Plugged in: You can just leave the slide bar all the way to the right.

If you do not change the display brightness then your graphic card software will be monitoring it and you will need to launch the program to make the changes.

Step 14: When you are done click on Save Changes at the bottom and close out all open windows.

Step 15: Un-plug your power adapter and move your mouse toward the time in the right lower side of your screen at the taskbar and place your mouse cursor over the power option icon and it will display the life of the xps m1330 battery. Ignore the warning about your current plan may reduce battery life because you made the advance changes to your battery. With these new changes on my laptop with a 6 cell battery I am now getting 4 1/2 hours of battery life. Before I was only getting 2 hours of battery life. But this is only with my laptop yours may be different.

Step 16 : Also, the more programs that you run while using the battery will drain it faster so try not to run a lot of programs.

Step 17: Xp users

Click start/control panel and navigate to your power options.

Now I don’t have windows xp anymore but if you look around on all the tabs and look for advance options then you will be able to adjust the battery life to what you want it to.

Step 18: If you are not happy with the performance of your laptop with saving more laptop batteries life then go back and increase the processor number.

New Lithium Battery Can Store And Deliver More

Posted on August 31st, 2009 in battery tips | No Comments »

New Lithium Battery Can Store And Deliver More Than Three Times Power Of Conventional Lithium Batteries.

University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries.(gd761,kd476)

The research team of professor Linda Nazar, graduate student David Xiulei Ji and postdoctoral fellow Kyu Tae Lee are one of the first to demonstrate robust electrochemical performance for a lithium-sulphur battery. The finding is reported in the online issue of Nature Materials.Many laptop batteries are made of them,such as dell xps M1330 battery ,inspiron b120 battery ,

The prospect of lithium-sulphur batteries has tantalized chemists for two decades, and not just because successfully combining the two chemistries delivers much higher energy densities. Sulphur is cheaper than many other materials currently used in lithium batteries. It has always showed great promise as the ideal partner for a safe, low cost, long lasting rechargeable battery, exactly the kind of battery needed for energy storage and transportation in a low carbon emission energy economy.

“The difficult challenge was always the cathode, the part of the battery that stores and releases electrons in the charge and recharge cycles,” said Dr. Nazar. “To enable a reversible electrochemical reaction at high current rates, the electrically-active sulphur needs to remain in the most intimate contact with a conductor, such as carbon.”

The Canadian research team leap-frogged the performance of other carbon-sulphur combinations by tackling the contact issue at the nanoscale level. Although they say the same approach could be used with other materials, for their proof of concept study they chose a member of a highly structured and porous carbon family called mesoporous carbon. At the nanoscale level, this type of carbon has a very uniform pore diameter and pore volume.

Using a nanocasting method, the team assembled a structure of 6.5 nanometre thick carbon rods separated by empty three to four nanometre wide channels. Carbon microfibres spanning the empty channels kept the voids open and prevented collapse of the architecture.

Filling the tiny voids proved simple. Sulphur was heated and melted. Once in contact with the carbon, it was drawn or imbibed into the channels by capillary forces, where it solidified and shrunk to form sulphur nanofibres. Scanning electron microscope sections revealed that all the spaces were uniformly filled with sulphur, exposing an enormous surface area of the active element to carbon and driving the exceptional test results of the new battery.Dell inspiron E1505 battery ,latitude d830 battery .

“This composite material can supply up to nearly 80 percent of the theoretical capacity of sulphur, which is three times the energy density of lithium transition metal oxide cathodes, at reasonable rates with good cycling stability,” said Dr. Nazar.

What is more, the researchers say, the high capacity of the carbon to incorporate active material opens the door for similar “imbibed” composites that could have applications in many areas of materials science.The technology can be used in laptop battery area,in the future,we can buy better dell gd761 ,kd476 battery .

The research team continues to study the material to work out remaining challenges and refine the cathode’s architecture and performance.

How to increase your Dell laptop battery life time

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dell Latitude D830 battery life time can be increased or decreased depending on the applications and tasks that you have your laptop doing. This article will tell you how to increase your Dell Latitude D830 battery life time.

Dell Latitude D830 battery life time can be increased or decreased depending on the applications and tasks that you have your laptop doing. For example, if you are playing a DVD movie, much power is being used, shorter time will your Dell Latitude D830 battery be used. If you are burning a CD-R/CD-RW or playing a full screen 3D video game, much power is being used. All these things take more power and in effect lessen the amount of time that you have in “portable” mode.
It is best to try to plug the laptop into the wall if possible in these situations. Remember that you can also get car power adapters for your laptop; this will charge your Dell Latitude D830 battery and power your laptop while you are on the road. Programs that take little power (giving you longer laptop battery life) include word processing programs like Microsoft Word or Corel Word Perfect, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, AOL, CompuServe, or any similar programs. Even the colors displayed on your screen can affect your Dell Latitude D830 battery life. Lighter colors take more power to produce. External connections such as USB Mice, USB Scanners, Memory Cards, Zip Drives, etc. all take more power from your precious Dell battery life. Keep these things in mind when power is of the essence.

Here are some tips to extend the life of your laptop battery:

1. Power down the display

Lowering the brightness may give you as much as an extra hour of runtime. And to increase even more the lifetime of your laptop battery lower the screen resolution and color depth. This will decrease the workload on the GPU, thus extending the battery runtime.

To change this settings follow the steps below:

  • a. Open the Windows Start menu and click the Control Panel
  • b. Open the Display menu
  • c. In the new window click the Appearance tab. Under the Advanced button you can disable extra features like ClearType fonts and fade effects which will cut down on the CPU’s power consumption
  • d. Now go to the Settings tab
  • e. Here adjust the color depth to 16 bit. This is more than enough in office and internet applications.
  • 2. Turn off unused devices

    Many new notebooks provide a hard-wired On/Off switch for the Wi-Fi radio for this reason.
    To save even more power go to the Control Panel, select System–>Hardware–>Device Manager, and disable the following items: Ethernet adapter, infrared transceiver, and Bluetooth radio . You should do this beacause having Bluetooth enabled and not using it actually consumes quite a bit of power.

    3. Decrease hard drive activity

    Defragmenting your hard drive regularly will decrease the frecuency with which your hard disk has to spin, therefore the dell inspiron E1505 battery will last longer. This is due to the fact that defragmentation optimizes the placement of the data on the drive and when a program makes a request for certain data it can be found more quickly.

    To defragment your hard disk follow the steps in this article.

    Another way to decrease hard drive activity is to set your paging file to a fix value, and this value should be around 1.5 times the amount the RAM you have installed on your computer.

    To set the paging file go to the Control Panel and click through System -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Advanced -> Virtual Memory Change.

    4. Disable startup items

    Startup items are programs that load into memory every time Windows boots up and cause other open applications to spill over virtual memory and adds to the CPU load, shortening battery runtime. Here is how to remove some of them that are not necessary.

    5. Condition the battery

    Battery memory is where the dell inspiron b120 battery becomes conditioned to run for less time than it is designed to run. Say for example, you run your computer on latitude d830 battery for an hour and then you plug it back in to let it recharge. The battery will become conditioned to run only an hour before it runs out of juice.

    To correct Battery Memory problems, you must completely drain the dell battery and recharge it. To completely drain your dell xps m1330 battery, you must go into your Windows Control Panel and select Power. Then you must turn Power Management Off. Next, you must go into your BIOS and make sure that if there is a power management setting there, that you turn it off as well. In most cases, once you are inside the BIOS, you will highlight Power Management and press Enter. Then locate the item Hibernation at Critical Battery, and by using the Minus sign, change the setting to Off. Once these steps have been completed, then use your Escape key to return to the top level menu, and select Save Settings and Exit.

    Once you have completed turning off the power management in both the BIOS and the Operating System, you must unplug the computer, turn the computer on and let it run until it completely runs out of electricity. Then you should charge the battery for 12 hours. At the end of the charging cycle, then run the computer again until the inspiron e1505 battery is dead, and then charge the battery for 12 more hours. You should repeat this process four times, before returning the computer to its original power management settings.

    A great little tip to keep in mind is that if you do keep your laptop plugged in for an extensive period of time REMOVE the battery. Let it discharge and give it a break. This will extend your battery life quite a bit.

    Another way to condition your battery is to keep it cool. It’s best to use (and especially charge) your batteries at room temperatures. Extreme conditions can drain your battery quickly.