How to identify the quality of laptop battery

Laptop battery currently on the market varies greatly, a large number of low-quality products into the market, including many counterfeit original battery, these bring great risks to consumers. For non-professional consumers, we propose several ways to select a new battery according to the following Laptop battery:

1. Check the package

a.There should be a brand. Neutral non-branded packaging products easily lead to buy inferior products or second-hand refurbished products.

b.There should be a sealed anti-static bag, anti-static sponge, etc, these are the basic configuration to protect laptop Dell U4873 battery.

c.Should have a bar code. Barcode is authority of identity unified management standard recognized by the country.

2. Check the appearance

a.There should be no scratches or obsolete sense, or it may be second-hand refurbished goods.

b.There should be clear parameters, performance, application of model identification.

c.There should be no opened spoor on hp PB992A battery cover seams.

3. Check there is a formal guarantee notes and after-sales commitment

Qualified cylindrical batteries used for formal professional notebook battery products, from the date of the factory, will be guaranteed one-year warranty. If there has no such commitment, then its use of batteries and other materials are likely unqualified batteries, the secondary batteries. Currently on the market appeared with the proliferation of laptop batteries converted by waste batteries of Japan, Korea, and inferior VGP-BPS2C batteries, this seemingly cheap products are actually a profiteering products and devastating to the normal use of the notebook computer, and may also a serious explosion causing bodily harm to consumers.

Laptop battery quality test

Battery for notebook is important, a direct impact on the portability of laptops, so the battery test not only observe the appearance but also to use specialized software for testing. Some brands such as IBM, SONY are equipped with specialized software to detect the frequency of the IBM ThinkPad T60 battery charging, while the HP notebook can detecte charging times in the BIOS. Through these post-test software or BIOS, if you found the battery charged more than 3 times, then the battery is used, the user may require dealers to replace.

To the other brands can not detect the frequency of hp PB992A battery charging, we can through a special software to test - Batterymon. You need to install the software, the installation file is relatively small, only 400 KB.

Batterymon can detect the battery’s total running time (theoretical value), can detect the battery power, as well as the remaining duration, we should notice that the capacity of new Laptop battery   should not be higher than 3%.

After finish testing these projects, the following click on “information” in the “battery information”, you can detect some of the specific information of the battery.

Here you should look out the data in “design capacity” and “full charge capacity” columns are the same or not, for a new Dell Inspiron E1505 battery, the design capacity and full charge capacity should be the same. My notebook had been used over half a year, there are differences between the fully charged capacity and the design capacity is a normal phenomenon.