Removing laptop battery while it is plugged-in is good, no?
August 22nd, 2013
Hello all,
I have just bought a laptop from Acer and the model is Aspire TimelineX 4830TG.
http://www.acer.com/timelinex/eng/
I know that it is better to remove the battery when you are constantly using your laptop with the adapter plugged-in to help extend battery life. I have been doing this occasionally with my previous laptop which has a detachable battery and yes, I believe it helps because my previous laptop still works great on battery even though it’s about 2-3 years old.
But what do I do when my current laptop has a built-in battery? A battery I cannot remove to allow my laptop to run directly on AC power. If the laptop battery continuously discharge and charge when the laptop is used while plugged-in , I’m pretty sure the battery will wear out sooner and faster.
So I’m just wondering a few things about this particular laptop model;
1) Is there any way to manually cut-off battery charging when it’s already full (100% charged) and allow laptop usage directly depending on AC power?
2) Does this laptop have any sort of automatic battery charging cut-off technology when the battery is fully charged to allow direct AC power usage?
I have tried to google these few questions regarding built-in batteries but I can’t find anything that’s why I turn to here.
Any help is welcome.
Thank you!
AFAIK battery or AC power usage is automated, and is depends on hardware, no software can do it.
I don’t think plugging battery in while running AC power will harm the battery. Battery will at rest state and will only drained when AC is cut off. I never pull out my laptop battery, I use AC power mostly, I open laptop 12 hours a day, it has been 2.5 years and my laptop battery only wear 11.5% (use batterybar to check). It used to be 3.2%, it drop to 11.5% when there’s one time I forgot plug in AC power, and battery totally drained out, which cause battery wear increase.
Battery lifetime work by recharge count. It should be able to recharge 1000 times for normal battery. For Mac laptop, recharge count should be more. My advise would be keep your battery plug in. You will never know it may save your important data one day when electricity cut-off suddenly.
yup, battery won’t drain when the lappy is on the charger
warlocklw replied: AFAIK battery or AC power usage is automated, and is depends on hardware, no software can do it.
I don't think plugging battery in while running AC power will harm the battery. Battery will at rest state and will only drained when AC is cut off. I never pull out my laptop battery, I use AC power mostly, I open laptop 12 hours a day, it has been 2.5 years and my laptop battery only wear 11.5% (use batterybar to check). It used to be 3.2%, it drop to 11.5% when there's one time I forgot plug in AC power, and battery totally drained out, which cause battery wear increase.
Battery lifetime work by recharge count. It should be able to recharge 1000 times for normal battery. For Mac laptop, recharge count should be more. My advise would be keep your battery plug in. You will never know it may save your important data one day when electricity cut-off suddenly.
Yeah keeping the battery in-tact would be important when you’re working on something important and there’s a power outage.
I’ll try to keep an eye on my battery using Batterybar like you’ve suggested and hopefully it doesn’t wear out quickly like your laptop’s battery
That’s the problem with those kinds of machines with battery you cannot take out, they want you to buy a new one after a few years, they don’t care about extending the battery life. I have alaptop that is 5 years old and the battery still lasts for over 3 hours, just like new, because I take it out when I don’t use it.