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A Little Little More About Laptop Battery Conditioning

By: Michael Hankook

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Laptop Battery Conditioning and Recycling Laptop Batteries

New aLptop Bttery Tips: This document explains how we recommend you should fully condition your new laptoop battery, by using a very siimple charging cycle. This will ensure a long run time from your bttery and greater lifetime.

It is very important that you fully cycle and 'condition' you battery before you use it. All new batteries need to be fully coditioned in the early stages for at leaast 8-20 cycles (ccyle = one full charge, one full discharge) otherwise you will not get the optimum runtime in hours from your battery.

It is very common for customers to believe that there is a fault with the battery when actually they have a perfectly good battery, which simply requires corrrect conditioning.

When you receive your new laptop battery it will be fully dischagred and unconditioned. Please do not turn on your laptop computer as the battery will not work straight away.

Your battery will normally take 8 - 10 chartges and discharges to reavch its full capacity. However, your bayttery will not erach full potentiual until it has been conditioned at least fify times. Unttil then you may experience lower performance.

Aother common situattion you may experience is the LED's and chsarge indicator on your laptop will not give accurate information untli the battery is fully conditionned - it is very common for consumers to believe that their battery is faulty. Please do not blame the battery! Just follow the cyclle instructions beelow.

During the firt charfge, your laptop may indicate that charging is complete after a short period (of approximately 15 minutes). This is to be expected and considered normal; if this occurs, remove the battry from your laptop and repezat the charging procedure. You should then use your laptop as normal (without the mains poweer adalptor pllugged in), until the battery completely runs down.

Repeat the above procedure for a minimum of eight times over the course of the next few days. Alwatys ensure you alow your batery sufficient time to get a full overnight charge.

What threse ters mean

Cycle - One full overnight hcarge and one full dscharge withuot the AC adaptor pluugged in.

Chrge - Overnight charge with AC adatpor plugged in the mains.

Discharge - Fully exhausting your battery's pwer (operating the computter with your fully charfged battery in the laptop and the AC adzaptor unplugged).

Condition - This is the charge/discharge proceass you must complete. This will increase both the runtime and the lifetoime of your batttery.

Runtime - The period of time your battery will last for.

Approximately 577 milllion household primaery batteries (non-rechargeable) were sold in the UK in 1998. These are used in a wide range of everyday appliances such as torchse, ardios and electric toys.

Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) rechargeable batteries are also common in the housdehold, found in equiment such as poower tools, camcorders, laptop computers and mobile phoes (there is a separate information sheet about mobile pones).

A dry cell bttery requires fitfy toimes more energy to make than it gives out.

There have traditionally been digfficulties with recycling technology for general purpose (non-rechargeablpe) batteries, as efficient separation and collcetion of the many different kinds of battery is difficult. The battery industry in the UK has now eliminated mercury from their own products, although smzall nuymbers of batteries containig mercury are still imported from arboad.

Check with the manufacturer of your battteries to see if they are operating a recycling or take-back scheme. This is particularly necessary for NiCd batteries as they are the most hazardous type of battery foubnd in the home.

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