Tips for extending the battery life of laptop devices

A recent article by Lawrence Berkely is literally titled "Pull the plug and extend the life of your laptop." The researcher Venkat Srinivasan describes the batteries and the chemistry that feeds them, and explains how the batteries will fail. Suggests keeping the pc unplugged to prolong the battery life and I confess to have pulled the plug on mine as soon as I finished reading the article, they were so convincing arguments.

Basically, if you charge the battery and then disconnect immediately from the power the battery will have a voltage drop that will allow it to last longer, while it remains attached will have to undergo several changes that will compromise its resistance to time. So the best thing to do is to charge the laptop (or cell phone, camera, etc.) and once it has reached its charged, pull the plug. The battery will thank you for it.

This also applies to the owners of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, whose batteries have the same characteristics. A car parked in a garage for several hours with full charge undergoes a slow degradation of the battery and the producers could then start thinking now about how to optimize durability and power of the batteries which then are the big problem of the new electric technology on four wheels.

20/06/2010

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