Laptop Battery Life Continued

So I won’t be able to refrigerate my laptop battery simply because if I take it out of my laptop there will be a big hole there that’s going to get filled with debris. I apologize if this gets anybody’s hopes up!

If you do however follow through with this experiment, please let us know what happened to you through a comment!

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Myths about Laptop Battery Life and How to Prolong It

I’ve recently bought a new laptop and I know many of my friends have an problems in the past with their battery packs providing very little lifetime after about 1 year of use.

Many of them suggested fully discharging my laptop battery before plugging it into the cord for a recharge again.

After searching around on the net I found that that was a better suggestion for the old Nickel based batteries and is not true for the Lithium-based batteries.

Here are 4 great concise tips I found on the following website for entending your battery life:

1. Leaving your power cord plugged in while your battery is fully charged generates heat is which bad.
2. If you’re not using your battery store it at 40% charge in a cool place (refrigerator, not freezer). Don’t store it for long periods of time fully discharged.
3. Although not good to fully discharge your lithium battery, overtime this may result in the ‘time remaining’ readings on your operating system to become inaccurate so it’s recommended to do a full discharge then recharge approx. every 30 charges.

I haven’t put my own battery in the refrigerator yet, but I’m going to try that now and I’ll write back on how that goes!

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