First time battery charge
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ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
It won't harm the battery life if you use if during the first charge, it will just take longer to charge. IMO there is a of of tosh and nonsense talked about battery life and charging regimes with Li-Ion batteries. I'm no battery expert but I do know that the number one enemy of Li-Ion batteries is heat, so any complex charging arrangements you implement will be rendered useless if you let the battery get hot.
A laptop cooling pad is good for the life of the battery as well as the laptop. All that said, the battery is a consumable and it's always going to die long before the rest of the laptop does not matter what you do.
My advice would be to plug it in to the charger and enjoy using it. It's a tool not an ornament!
A laptop cooling pad is good for the life of the battery as well as the laptop. All that said, the battery is a consumable and it's always going to die long before the rest of the laptop does not matter what you do.
My advice would be to plug it in to the charger and enjoy using it. It's a tool not an ornament!
My advice would be to plug it in to the charger and enjoy using it. It's a tool not an ornament!
This! I cannot agree with this any more.
Ultimately, all these people who are saying things like only charge the battery to 80% are all saying they know more than the multitude of R&D scientists and electronics design engineers who have designed the batteries and what are now complex charging circuits.
Back in the day of Nickle Cadmium, it was as simple as throwing roughly 1-1.5V more than than the cell voltage across the terminals and it'd charge.
You could add in some heat-sensors which were also common in Nickle Metal Hydride.
Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer are a LOT more complicated and personally I just don't worry about.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
Inded no, Li-Ion is a different beast altogether from NiCad as Tony1044 has mentioned. TBH the battery is a consumable and you may as well get used to that.