Do you really use the laptop battery correctly?

Posted by admin on October 27, 2010
Netbook

Laptop, you use it? Laptop batteries that you use and how much they mastered? Long-term use to connect the power of the books, how should we save a good laptop battery it? Problems seem less important, in fact, affect the laptop battery life, want books with a bit longer? Then let us learn about battery use it!

Most laptops are equipped with automatic down-conversion function, so that the benefits of the books is the maximum extension of battery life. Many people who use the Celeron may have questions about the books, our books do not have this feature, is not naturally less power out? CPU power consumption is only a part of, in fact, the order should be like electricity: LCD> CPU (full speed)> Graphics> Wireless LAN> CPU fan. In other words, in addition to CPU, we have still other aspects, reducing the maximum power consumption.

The control panel in WindowsXP has a power management option, the “power scheme”, set the LCD screen in idle for about 10 minutes off the most reasonable, and the hard disk will have to set more appropriate in 15 minutes. The moment of launch will take some hard power is not that frequently start and stop on the hard disk damage is considerable. Of course, you can also manually turn off the screen, most of the books through fn + F3 function key to achieve.

Set LCD, hard drive shut down time, and if necessary to further save power, but also the operational status of the system to adjust, it is not able to do the WindowsXP. The Thinkpad, for example, most of the books have built-in battery management software, general books will provide eight-screen brightness adjustment, although the bright state can get the best visual effect, but it is very, very power-hungry, so , edit the document or some other common application to adjust the screen brightness to the lower six or seven most appropriate. At the same time, CPU can also set the best battery performance, CPU fan running status set to “balanced” more reasonable.

Some low-priced books there is no battery management software (because there is no built-in power management chip), but you can use the generic battery monitoring software to manage the battery. BatteryMon is a good paragraph.

Many people use the laptop battery, see the power started to charge less than 100%, but this will accelerate the reduction of the total electricity capacity lithium, long down, the battery life much shorter time, but also greatly shortened life expectancy . Therefore, the recommended limit is lower than 10% of the charge re-charging, but also careful not to set too low, such as the use to only about 3% charge left, it is not enough science. Low power alarm must be set, generally less than 10% of the alarm as well, less than 3% of the serious alarm means that the battery is insufficient to support the next boot into the system. Many battery management software is the default start charging less than 96%, this will damage the battery charge, so be sure to change this setting. In addition, the best off charging the battery so that conservation can play a role.

If the laptop battery power for a long time greatly reduced, the depth of discharge can try to “save” it. This is a “dead horse a living horse medicine” approach, not a last resort, it is best not to do so. The simplest method is to discharge has been running the program, less than 3% of electricity to restart the laptop into the BIOS after the vacancy to run until the automatic power up. Then the depth of charge, charging time to reach eight hours, but not more than twelve hours, which would allow lithium to restore some power.