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Notebook Battery

Most often used in notebook batteries of two types: lithium ion and nickel-metal Hydride (NiMH).

Your notebook may give you a good freedom feeling on your travels for 3 or even more hours, but once the battery runs out, so does the freedom. If you travel not once a year, keep a spare notebook battery so that you'll never miss a important fair.

A few simple rules can doubled battery life and make them safer:

New battery before normal use must be trained, with a complete charge - discharge of 5-6 cycles / charging. To use the training mode bysroy batteries discharge: unplug the notebook from the wall outlet and turn it on. Use some active programme like scandisk for continuous operation.

Lithium-ion batteries are particularly sensitive to heating. To avoid potential fire them should not be exposed to prolonged direct sunlight, for example, leaving the car in the cabin. Many producers indicate temperature batteries, it is necessary to draw attention to these figures.

Keep always the battery fully charged laptop is not very good idea - for long life and better battery capacity best alternately using a battery and electrical grid.

Storage battery connectors should be kept away from metal objects that can cause a short circuit.

Always use Power Option management for extend battery lifetime, becouse notebook hard drive takes up about 12 to 15 percent of the battery power. Using Power saving optiongs, you can get about half an hour additional notebook running time.

If you do not plan to work with my laptop computer in a few months, it is advisable to remove the battery and store it in a charged at 50%.

If you keep the battery is fully discharged, it will lose its capacity, as if to keep it fully charged - reduced term of battery service.

Most of the batteries must work a minimum of 2 hours. This result can be achieved after battery training. Most laptops have two modes of charging notebook batteries: QUICK - when the computer is connected to the mains, but himself with the disabled (2-3 hours), and SLOW - when battery loaded while notebook is working.

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