Know Your Laptop Battery
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When given this question to any laptop or notebook computer user, they will get puzzled.
This happens to me once when someone ask me about my laptop battery.
As you can see, before you replaced your laptop battery it is quite important to know a bit on the back ground first. There are several types of laptop batteries which I will share in this post.
Types of Laptop Batteries:-
- Alkaline - This is one of the common batteries around but only few laptops used it and the flaw about alkaline batteries is that is not rechargeable. You have to throw it once it goes flat.
- Lead Acid - One of the most commons usage for this type is for laptop computers. It is long lasting, durable and rechargeable but unfortunately it is heavy and full of lead
. - Lithium-Ion - The type of battery you would want to have for your laptop. The fast charging effect make it good for users on the go (need not wait for a long time for the battery to get charged completely). It is also environment friendly as well.
- Nickel-Cadium - Ni-Cd batteries is one of the oldest and best performance types of rechargeable batteries but it has a major problem. After a long usage ( a few years), the battery will suffer from the dreaded memory effect. This means that the lifespan usage of the battery will deteriorate as time goes by.
- Nickel- Metal Hydride - Ni-MH batteries is considered to be the successor of the Ni-Cd batteries but unfortunately the dreaded memory effect is as bad as well. However as compared between Ni-Cd and NiMH batteries, the latter last longer as compared to its predecessor.
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The odds that you will using the Lithium-Ion batteries are 99% ( that’s if you are using the new breeds of laptops ). Just check the abbreviation that says LION or Li-Ion on your laptop battery label.
There are still a few laptops that are using Ni-MH batteries these days and you might want to check with the manufacturer whether you can do an upgrade from Ni-MH to Li-Ion.
Using unapproved batteries could led to dire consequences …. so do be very careful on this.
If you have a higher budget you might want to check out SMART batteries. It has a power management circuitry and it will indicate to the user what is the current condition of the battery.
Till the next post ……. have a plesant day .
Write a comment below if you find anything this post interesting or whatever your thoughts are on this post.
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Buy a car online said:
Sandra Kellog wrote about it lately but i think what you wrote is much better.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 am -
Mohd Fauzi A Rahman said:
Thanks for the compliment.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm -
help me save my marriage said:
Added, thanks for this post - it was a good read.
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 am -
Nathaniel said:
Wow! Really looks like you know what your talking about!
I checked the bottom of my laptop just now and found I am using the li-Ion of lithium ion batteries.
Now the NI-CD and NI-MH, though they have the dreaded memory, what you have to do once in a while is let them run all the way out, it may take a few days but they have to go all the way down, and they will reset.August 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 am -
Mohd Fauzi A Rahman said:
The only way around for Ni-Cd and Ni-MH batteries is to let it go flat before charging them back to the fullest again.
However with the 2 batteries mentioned above, it is better to check an Li-Ion upgrade option cause you might not want to hang on with batteries that died ever so quickly.August 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
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