laptop battery

hittman · 16 Jul 2007 at 03:56

is it bad or good leaving the power cord in your laptop with the battery in all the time? when the battery is 100% fully charged?? will this damage the battery??

whats the general advice?

Nebzor · 16 Jul 2007 at 03:59

Good, if you can call it that. I thought it was just power, whether good or bad :rolleyes:

Your laptop will run off your battery, with the power being taken from the mains to top the battery up. Kinda like a UPS. Nothing wrong with it at all.

semi-pro waster · 16 Jul 2007 at 07:35

Benjarghmin, I don't think laptop batteries are designed that way. They work better with a charge/discharge cycle or at least they used to as otherwise a form of 'memory' effect can take place.

Personally if I'm going to be leaving my laptop plugged in for a long time I will remove the battery. It might or might not make any real difference but it makes me feel better.

Cyber-Mav · 16 Jul 2007 at 07:38

thought that memory effect only occurs on old ni-cad batteries, on nimh and lithium ion batteries that doesn;t occur?

dunno really, what types of batteries do they use in ups systems? since those dont really need to be deep cycled or car batteries.