How to properly use and maintain laptop battery

1, activate the new battery

Want your Laptop battery longevity, there must be a good start, which was talking about from the purchase of laptop computer. The new notebooks in the first boot with the battery should be 3% of the electricity (which is also firms common practice. If you open for the first time and found that the battery is already full, it must have been used by others), this time, you should first do not use an external power supply, let the power inside the battery exhausted, until shutdown, and then recharge with the  external power supply. After returning home, also charge the battery after the exhaustion of power, charging time must be more than 12 hours, repeated three times in order to activate the battery, in this way can lay a good foundation for future use.

2, to minimize the number of using notebook computer battery

This may made people feel like some petty, but it is also the most effective. We should know that the battery charge and discharge frequency is directly related to life. The battery steps to retirement after every charge. Suggest that you try to use an external power supply, use an external power supply when the battery removed. Some friends often plug and unplug power several times a day, and the notebook computer equipped with a battery, to do so, even greater damage to the battery. Because each access to external power supply is equivalent to charge the battery, naturally the Dell Inspiron 6400 battery life shortened.

3, charge after the exhaustion of electricity and avoid charging too long time

Regardless of your notebook computer uses lithium or nickel-hydrogen battery, it must take charge after the exhaustion of power (power less than 1%), which is the best way to avoid the memory effect. Lithium-Ion battery also has memory effect, its memory effect is smaller than nickel-metal hydride. With the same way of mobile phone battery charging, when you charge the laptop battery, try to avoid too long, the general control within 12 hours. As for the prevention of exposure, to prevent damp, to prevent the erosion of chemical liquids, to avoid the hp 417066-001 battery contacts with metal objects, not much to mention here.