OCTOBER 16TH, 2009
By ADMIN
Teach you some proper method about the maintenance of battery. Mainly divided into the following four points:
First, to avoid the complete discharge and often charge lithium batteries. The repeated arbitrarily rechargeable lithium VGP-BPS2B battery damage is very small, almost negligible.
Second, placed the lithium batteries which need to keep hold in the shade, remember not to put in the refrigerator. To avoid prolonged on the high-temperature places, if you need save the Dell Inspiron 8500 battery for a long time, please charge to 50% before storage.
Third, if you are using a fixed power supply most of the time, please remove the batteries and place in the shade.
Fourth, no need to purchase spare lithium batteries for storage, so this piece is actually a waste of hp 367759-001 battery.
General users in accordance with the above four points, basically they can make their own laptop batteries live longer.
Two typical measures of battery performance are capacity and cranking current.
- Capacity is determined by a slow discharge (usually over ten hours) until the hp laptop battery reaches 10.5 volts. The test current multiplied by the discharge time is the capacity in Amp-hours (AH). This is proportional to the volume of the plates and acid, i.e., the hp 417066-001 battery’s physical size. The relatively long test time allows diffusion to replenish the weakened electrolyte in and near the plates, ensuring that most of the sulphates in the acid can be used.
- Cranking performance is usually measured in Cold Cranking Amps. CCA is the highest current the battery can supply at 0° F for 30 seconds without dropping below 7.2 volts. Due to the short time and the low electrolyte temperature, diffusion is negligible and only the acid in the plate surface can be replenished at all. The weakened acid inside the plates cannot be replenished in such a short time, so hp 346970-001 battery CCA is directly proportional to the total plate surface area, the negative in particular. The eventual replenishment of the weakened acid is what allows the battery to “recover” when you pause after prolonged cranking. Keep in mind, actual cranking power increases with temperature; the CCA number only applies to 0° F. Sometimes you may see a reference to “CA”, or Cranking Amps. This is the same test, performed at 32° F.
- Battery selection, then, depends on how much cranking power and capacity you want. Larger batteries generally have larger plates, providing both increased volume (capacity) and surface area (cranking power).
- You need a good CCA “safety factor” for very cold weather and hard starts. Hard starts can include poor state of tune (long cranking required), thick oil, high compression, and so on. With a new K75, I require very little CCA to start, even in winter (the stock hp 367759-001 battery had less than 180) but my conditions are pretty optimal.
- You need good AH capacity if you have any load-leveling concerns as mentioned previously (periods of time where the loads outweigh the charging). On the K, with a 700W alternator I have no load-leveling concerns since the electrical system is always meeting the demands. I use the smallest battery possible, since I don’t want to carry the extra weight. A larger size would not hurt me, though.
- Battery life is another concern. The cycling action weakens the positive plate over time, causing it to slowly shed particles of the active material. Larger hp f2024a battery will be used to a lower “depth of discharge”, causing less of the weakening. Furthermore, the loss of that material will be less significant since there was more to start with. In practice, these effects are probably small, unless you run with a lot of “load leveling”.