How to protect your battery

Modern batteries survive a number of recharge life cycles. As you use up cycles, your total capacity degrades until the battery can't support the load required. Charge cycles don't have to be 100% full to empty cycles to count, so running your battery down to 80% and then plugging back in to mains power counts as 20% of one cycle gone for good. Apple has a page about this, http://www.apple.com/batteries, they recommend doing a full 100% to 0% cycle once a month, if you're not otherwise using the battery.

Hints for protecting your battery:

1) Use it only when you need to
2) Don't let it get hot!!
3) Don't store it with out some charge (I think about 75% is suggested)

Don't use it when you charge it :)

You should wait your battery to be at 0% to charge it again, this is what you should do with new electronic objects like phone, mp3s, cameras, but you should also do it time after time.

The only reason to fully deplete a li-ion battery is to recalibrate the charge meter. Depleting a li-ion battery can even kill it if the charge goes to low (yes it happend to me). This is what wikipedia sais about the subject:

Guidelines for prolonging Li-ion battery life

* Unlike Ni-Cd batteries, lithium-ion batteries should be charged early and often. However, if they are not used for a long time, they should be brought to a charge level of around 40%–60%. Lithium-ion batteries should not be frequently fully discharged and recharged ("deep-cycled") like Ni-Cd batteries, but this is necessary after about every 30th recharge to recalibrate any external electronic "fuel gauge" (e. g. State Of Charge meter). This prevents the fuel gauge from showing an incorrect battery charge.[21]
* Li-ion batteries should never be depleted to below their minimum voltage, 2.4 V to 3.0 V per cell.
* Li-ion batteries should be kept cool. Ideally they are stored in a refrigerator. Aging will take its toll much faster at high temperatures. The high temperatures found in cars cause lithium-ion batteries to degrade rapidly.
* Li-ion batteries should not be frozen [37] (most lithium-ion battery electrolytes freeze at approximately −40 °C; however, this is much colder than the lowest temperature reached by household freezers).
* Li-ion batteries should be bought only when needed, because the aging process begins as soon as the battery is manufactured.[21]
* When using a notebook computer running from fixed line power over extended periods, the battery should be removed,[38] and stored in a cool place so that it is not affected by the heat produced by the computer.

.... Wrong computers!

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so ill just sum it up

• with Li-Ion batteries, the "format" is not recommended unless the fuel gauge on the battery starts to be imprecise. that is at most once a month




• do not discharge the Li-ion battery under 10-12%, because this will put an additional stress on it. there is a minimum amount of current the Li-ion batt. needs to hold at all times




• the heat is the biggest enemy of the batt. anything you can do to cool your laptop better, such as a cooling station underneath will help




• if you're planning to store the battery for a while, consider emptying it to somewhere in between 40%-50% and then store it in a cool place. dont freeze it though




• the battery starts to age the minute it leaves the factory, so make sure you buy a new laptop and not one that has already been sitting on a shelf for the past half of year




• a laptop li-ion batt. has a life of 2-3 years. if you take care of it you might reach the 3rd year with still good juice. if not. you might notice a degree of decay after 1.5 years




• recharge the batt. at will, anytime. cycles function differently with li-ion




• since, after 3 years its rather hard to find a new battery for your old laptop, if you plan on keeping your rig, i would start looking for an extra new batt. when the 2nd year of use approaches.

1) Use it only when you need to
2) Don't let it get hot!!
3) Don't store it with out some charge (I think about 75% is suggested)

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