In the modern world of high-tech devices that can do almost anything, one of the most important points is preserving the battery charge, because the operation of the equipment itself depends on it.
How to handle laptop battery
Recent studies have shown that a laptop battery should not be charged to 100 percent of its capacity. It is better to stop this process at eighty percent, and start when the charge level drops to forty.
This strategy significantly increases the battery life, in some cases by more than three to four times. It's all about the principle of operation of a lithium-polymer battery. A voltage level close to the declared maximum wears out the battery much faster, which leads to a significant reduction in the number of charge cycles, and this, in turn, reduces the battery capacity.
Researchers at Battery University have conducted a series of experiments that support this claim. If you regularly charge the battery to one hundred percent, it generates from three to five hundred cycles without reducing the capacity. And if you limit the "ceiling" to seventy percent, then the number of complete cycles can rise to two thousand.
The problem is that it is difficult to maintain the specified range of battery charge. It is terribly inconvenient to constantly monitor this, and, unfortunately, there are no corresponding programs for common operating systems. Some manufacturers produce laptops with built-in software that partially fulfills these functions, but usually such software limits only the limit to which the laptop can be discharged (in the region of twenty percent of the battery capacity), it is not customary to do anything with the upper limit.
One of the solutions is to measure the time it takes to charge and discharge the battery to the required levels. After that, any timer that supports the notification system will allow you to control the process of replenishing the battery to the desired level.
How to keep charge
When it comes to keeping the battery charged during operation, there are a number of steps you can take to accomplish this. Firstly, when disconnecting the laptop from the mains, be sure to put the battery in an economical or optimized mode, delve into the settings, you may be able to "painlessly" further reduce the brightness of the monitor for yourself, which will significantly extend the battery life of the laptop. Secondly, keep the hard drive to a minimum, this can be achieved using defragmentation, which optimizes its active work. Defragmentation can be done using the built-in program.
