Laptop battery

HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE LIFE SPAN OF YOUR LAPTOP BATTERY

It has been discovered by IT experts that one of the problems that laptop users normally have is changing of thier laptop battery.  When you buy a new system and the manufacturer gives you a guaranty of 2 years or more, you will be surprised that while all other components of the laptop works fine even for over 5 or 6 years, the laptop battery has a shorter life span. When there is no external supply of power, the laptop battery is very useful.  Normally, a laptop battery is supposed to power the laptop for up to 2 hours (thou there are some now that can power for up to 6 hours) but it can be annoying when the laptop battery cannot supply power for more than 30 or 10 mins, honestly from experience, it reduces productivity and do not allow mobility of the laptop in areas where there is no external power supply.

If you practice the instructions listed below, you will be amazed that laptop batteries can last longer than it used to.

1. Dim your screen: how of our laptops have this very bright screen and this kills the battery faster, especially when you are not using the brightness , for example when you are watching a movie. so reduce or dim your screen.
2. Running Many Application: When you are not using some application on your background, close it because it consumes RAM and RAM consumes the battery. Reduce the application running.
3. Remove External devices: switch off devices such as Bluetooth, WiFi they drain your battery, and charging of phones and Ipod are one of the good sources of draining your battery. so whenever they are not in such shut them down.
4. CD/DVD Drives:CD and DVD Drives drains the battery most especially when there is a disk in it, when it spins it drains your battery. so copy what you need from a CD before running.
5. Keep the battery contacts clean: Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol. This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.
6. Take care of your battery – Exercise the Battery. Do not leave a charged battery dormant for long periods of time. Once charged, you should at least use the battery at least once every two to three weeks. Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge.
7. Hibernate not standby – Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does. Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.
8. Set up and optimize your power options – Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).