How to choose a charger

September 20th, 2009 Tagged charger

How to choose a charger

Many people when buying rechargeable batteries, a look at the capacity, or look the brand. However, to know that buying a good performance of the rechargeable laptop battery is also a great school of learning.

Batteries can be divided into two categories, one category is “one cell”, and the other is “secondary battery.” “One cell” As the name suggests is the use of no value once the battery, “secondary dell laptop battery” simply means that rechargeable batteries, can charge for further use.

Lithium batteries can be understood as digital products, special batteries, its shape according to the design of digital products can be arbitrarily changed, lithium batteries almost no memory effect, and use a long time. However, lithium batteries (Sony PCGA-BP71 Sony PCGA-BP1N) are expensive, and between the different specifications of the lithium batteries can not be generic.

In the rechargeable Toshiba PA3451U-1BRS batteries are printed on the surface of a similar mark, indicating this product is what type of battery. NI-MH says that nickel-metal hydride batteries, is actually very simple, NI is the chemical letters Nickel, NH, said hydrogen. By the same token NI-Cd is expressed as a nickel-cadmium batteries.

Battery rated capacity refers to a certain discharge conditions, the Sony VGP-BPS9 battery discharge to the release of electricity cut-off voltage. No. 7 currently on the market capacity of the battery 400mAh-900 mAh mostly between the 5 batteries from 1000 mAh-2500 mAh range. Of course, in a sense, the capacity is of course the bigger the better, because of large capacity means longer battery life.

It is also noteworthy that, among the different capacities of batteries do not mix. For example, three 2300 mAh of the Dell inspiron 1526 battery batteries 1300 mAh battery, which emit an effective current of only 1300 mAh, from the physics can be very simple to understand this point.

The rechargeable Inspiron 640m battery are generally marked on the standard charge time and quick charge time, charging the speed with charger related.

Slow charge generally use constant current charging mode, and the battery is full and automatically converted to trickle charge state. Has the advantage of slow charge circuit design is simple and easy to implement, prices are also lower; As a result of low current constant current charging, effectively reducing the pavilion ZV6000 battery charging process in the heat, to extend the battery life is very good. Drawback is the charging time is too long, especially in the case of large quantity of batteries a bit powerless.

Fast charge is generally using a large pulse current charging Pavilion DV2000 battery , but because of high current battery charging process will generate polarized responses, leading to the rapid increase in battery temperature, full power on after resume a likely explosion and combustion, so fast charge also uses a special chip to control the charging process of Dell Inspiron e1505 Battery, automatically stop charging once filled so that the whole process of charging has become safe and efficient.

In the end is a standard charger or optional fast charger that can be purchased according to the needs of users. Here to remind consumers to purchase brand-name products charger must be, and if I get quick charger fot yoyr Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery,, be sure to understand whether the automatic power-off function.

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The Digital camera battery daily maintenance

August 31st, 2009 Tagged battery, camera, daily, digital, maintenance

The Digital camera battery daily maintenance

At present, there are two types of digital camera batteries, professional lithium batteries and 5 AA batteries. The professional lithium battery is very light, high capacity, environmental protection, and no memory effect, but the price is expensive, and can’t be use generally. Ni-Mh battery with high capacity, and discharge deeply, and durable to charge and discharge, short charge time and other obvious advantage. The most important of all is cheap and can be use generally.

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No matter what kind of Sony NP-BG1 battery, as long as it company sale with digital camera, the user manual will indicate the attention items, some manufacturers even print out a single user guide of Canon BP-511 battery, and charger. Those manual are the basic but useful maintain instruction, such as the charge method, charge time of the battery. It is necessary for the new users to take few times to read it.

Normal users don’t have a professional bag to store the Kodak KLIC-5001 battery when use the digital camera, they usually put the battery randomly no matter the place is clean or wet after replace the battery. It is easy to dirty the battery, and contact with metal things, such as key, it also maybe wet, those are the enemy of battery.

Suggestion: User should find a professional position for the Casio NP-30 battery, and keep its clean. In order to avoid the power losing or any other problem, keep clean of battery two side touch point and battery cover, you can clean it with soft dry cloth when necessary.

If long time no need to use the digital camera, then you must take out the Fujifilm NP-40 battery from the camera and store it in dry and cool environment. Regarding the Ni-Mh battery, it should be discharged fully then store it or store it with power? The two different point, should adopt which one? A lot of people choose the former, but I think it is more reasonable to store the battery with power. Because according to the test, the best condition of storing a Ni-Mh Olympus Li-12b battery is with 80% power. This is due to the Ni-Mh battery discharge itself at 10-15% monthly. As you can as well, the new Ni-Mh battery always have power, it is the same reason.

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Notebook battery Maintenance New opinion

July 7th, 2009 Tagged maintenance, New opinion, notebook battery

Notebook battery Maintenance New opinion

What are the laptop battery maintenance mode? What is the use of laptop battery maintenance of the taboo? Notebook battery maintenance of books in the end should be pulled out, pulled out if the power of how to do? Notebook battery maintenance of good access to the longest time? See below, it will know.

Notebook battery life is longer, often dissatisfied with sufficient, or even show damage, if the laptop battery maintenance of peace have not done enough good, then more accelerated the aging batteries! It is necessary to observe in the use of some maintenance tips. Whether you are using a notebook lithium battery as A1008 or nickel-metal hydride batteries.

As far as possible to the battery charge after the exhaustion of the basic (power less than 5%), which is to avoid the battery the best way memory effect. In fact, the lithium-ion battery has some memory effect, Ni-MH battery is more than just much smaller. However important to note that charge when the time is too long to avoid the general control within 12 hours. Notebook battery as A1061 maintenance free with the use with the filling!

Notebook battery life is not determined by the length of time, but by the number of charge and discharge decisions. This is the importance of maintenance of notebook battery – Li-ion notebook battery (M8403) life by the number of charge-discharge decision! If you are using a laptop when the battery has been installed on the notebook instead of taking down, even if the machine shut down and removed AC power, the battery would not like to imagine that as you have maintained a state of full power.

Used because the notebook battery is a Into a control circuit, even when the computer is shut down power consumption. After I connected to AC power, when battery power is not full, so it will start charging. In this way, when the power turned on or off, your laptop battery will repeatedly charge and discharge and shorten VGP-BPS5A battery life, this is the laptop battery maintenance bogey.

To this end, in the use of external AC power supply when the battery pulled out the best. Moreover, the laptop battery if exposed to heat their state will have an impact on life expectancy. Laptop battery for long-term maintenance of non-use, please red discharge at least a month to ensure that the activity of the battery. At the same time, when the battery in the custody of a problem we must pay attention to 8N544 PA3399U-1BRS battery.

That is, the vast majority of laptop battery currently used in lithium-ion batteries do not use if the long period of time, then, often prone to the phenomenon of excessive discharge, may no longer be able to charge a notebook battery. This is the laptop battery maintenance of a free! In order to prevent excessive battery discharge, in a state of semi-rechargeable battery stored in a cool place, and then once every six months, and then half of its electricity to the state of charge. Notebook battery maintenance free Latitude D800 battery storage for too long, as well as the battery over-discharge damage to the battery!

In addition, the impact of notebook battery life of factors including the use of the environment temperature (30 ℃ suggested that the use of the following), storage inspiron 8600 battery and battery temperature suffered shock size. In the use of laptop batteries after a certain period of time will be aging (no matter how maintenance can not be avoided!), As demonstrated by the internal resistance become larger, in charge when the voltage rise faster, so it is easy to charge control circuit has been found to have full capacity is of course also declined.

Laptop battery will be calibrated to deal with aging is an effective way to the laptop battery, which is many years laptop battery maintenance of a more commonly used! However, only a small number of notebook batteries have a dedicated calibration software. If your notebook does not discharge the exclusive use of the software, then the battery can be carried out in accordance with the maintenance of the following steps:

Disable the screen saver;

In the Windows Power Management power scheme will be set to “always open”;
General tab in the warning “insufficient power warning” is set to 10%, the operation is set to “no operation”;
will be “a serious power shortage alert,” set to 3%, operating as a “wait”;
the screen brightness to the maximum;
confirm all the windows closed, and the preservation of all data prior to the work;
confirm inspiron 630m battery after more than 80%, unplug the power and all external equipment.

Discharge after the end of the notebook will automatically shut down after the power plug so that the notebook charge, this process can be repeated 2 to 3 times the battery to enable continuous low current discharge, which discharge the state in our day-to-day use it is impossible achieved, the effect of discharge and those dedicated basically the same software.

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Notebook battery fully charge and discharge error

July 5th, 2009 Tagged charge, discharge, error, notebook battery

Notebook battery fully charge and discharge error

Notebook computer equipped with the original battery, after a period of time after use, there will inevitably be the case of standby time. Some users said: “depth with repeated charge-discharge method, be able to resume the performance of the battery, thereby extending the battery life.

To a correct understanding of this issue, start a notebook about the type of laptop battery used. As we all know, in 1995, before the production of notebook computers are basically used to power nickel-cadmium batteries. In the use of such batteries, if not the correct way of charging and discharging, the battery will have a “memory effect”, thereby reducing the battery’s actual capacity, the elimination of this “memory effect” is the best way to repeatedly charge and discharge depth manner. With the emergence of nickel-hydrogen batteries, battery capacity has improved significantly, but the “memory effect” did not completely eliminate the shortcomings.

In recent years, lithium-ion batteries in notebook computers has been rapidly increasing, largely as a result of lithium-ion batteries have been the elimination of the “memory effect” problem, it is used repeatedly to restore the depth of latitude D800 battery charge-discharge performance of the method is not applied. But why lithium-ion battery capacity or the will to reduce the problem? Have a fundamental reason for this situation is used in notebook computers and the original lithium-ion battery in the built-in battery management systems.

Battery Management: At present, in notebook computers, almost all adopted the “battery management” and “charge-discharge control” of two chip-level management systems. The “battery management chip” placed in the notebook computer itself, the chip registers in the memory of the computer used in the capacity of lithium-ion inspiron 8600 battery, operating temperature, ID serial number, charge-discharge state, the cumulative number of charge-discharge and other important information. In the use of these data, the need to constantly refresh the actual situation. The battery built-in “chip control charge and discharge” the most important role is to monitor and control the battery charge and discharge the entire process and be documented.

Charge: Lithium-ion rechargeable battery the whole process is divided into “fast charge constant-current” and “reduced charge constant current” two stages. The so-called “constant current fast charge” means charge has just begun, the charge current and charge voltage to follow a fixed battery terminal voltage gradually increased until they reach their nominal voltage of the charging method. When the inspiron 630m battery terminal voltage has reached the standard value, the controller will automatically turn into “reduced charge constant current” phase, when the charging voltage will no longer continue to rise, while the charge current to follow the battery capacity is rising gradually diminishing, and eventually reach zero, so they all completed a GK479 GD761 battery charging process.

At the same time, the charge generated by the process of charging voltage, current and time data curves will be recorded in the VGP-BPS5 battery’s “charge-discharge control chip” of the memory. “Battery management chip” is through access to th

ese data, calculated by the sample data such as battery capacity, which is, in Battery Information in numerical Wh read.

Fixed: After repeated charging and discharging the HP DV2000 battery after use, its built-in chip in the charge-discharge data will of course be changed. If at this time “battery management chip” has no chance to re-read the newer, more complete data, it calculated the battery capacity will not be accurate of course, to the user the feeling seems to be reducing the capacity of the Satellite A100 battery, and the fact that the actual capacity of the battery has not really reduced. Some bring their own brand of rechargeable laptop management software working principle, the process is in charge refresh “charge-discharge control chip” memory of the data, thus ensuring the “battery management chips,” the correctness of calculations.

A close look if you have the use of laptop manuals, will be found that “a month in the use of computer time, should make a full laptop battery charge and discharge operation” note. Its main purpose is to use the depth of charge and discharge the way to amend the charge and discharge control chip register data in the curve so that the battery charge control and battery nominal capacity and the actual situation, as a result the correct value of the battery capacity.

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Rechargeable battery Recycling Attentions

June 22nd, 2009 Tagged Attentions, battery, Rechargeable, Recycling

Rechargeable battery Recycling Attentions

Don’t throw away used rechargeable batteries and cell phones! Recycle them!

All personnel handling RBRC collection boxes should follow these safety guidelines to ensure safe storage and shipping of used rechargeable batteries and cell phones. Call2Recycle mandates a ONE rechargeable BATCL50L battery, ONE bag rule. Utilize Call2Recycle-provided collection boxes and bags meeting U.S. DOT requirements to properly insulate individual batteries and cell phones for transport.

RBRC’s Call2Recycle program recycles Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion), Nickel Zinc (Ni-Zn), and Small Sealed Lead (Pb)* rechargeable Aspire One battery found in cellular and cordless phones, cordless power tools, laptop computers, PDAs, two-way radios, camcorders, remote control toys, and other cordless products.

* weighing less than 11 lbs/5 kg each.

Alkaline, lithium, or other non-rechargeable batteries are not accepted for laptop battery recycling.

Call2Recycle accepts all cell phone makes and models. Phones must be deactivated prior to depositing into the collection box. Do not accept bag or cordless phones.

Used rechargeable batteries may still contain a residual charge that can short-circuit if terminals come in contact with other battery terminals during storage and shipping.

To prevent short-circuits, RBRC mandates a ONE rechargeable Travelmate 290 battery, ONE bag rule. Each rechargeable battery, or cell phone with installed battery, must be placed into a separate plastic bag. If plastic bags are unavailable, cover battery terminals with tape (electrical, duct, or masking).

The shipment of rechargeable batteries that have not been properly packaged to prevent short-circuits is a violation of Federal law. Additionally, failure to comply with these Call2Recycle shipping guidelines may lead to a disruption of recycling services.

Place the rechargeable battery and cell phone collection box in a monitored location. The box should be within easy reach of properly trained personnel.

While rechargeable batteries are normally safe to handle, they contain materials that can vent during use. If a rechargeable battery appears to be dirty or to have a white powdery substance around the terminal, exercise caution when handling. Do not touch the dirty area. Wash your hands with soap and water. Put the battery in a plastic bag before placing it in the collection box BATCL50L, BATCL50L4 .

Do not attempt to discharge a rechargeable battery by short-circuiting the terminals.

Do not accept wet batteries. Batteries should be dry before being placed into the collection box.

Do not overfill the collection box. When a collection box is full, seal and ship using the prepaid shipping label Travelmate 290 battery . RBRC will automatically ship replacement boxes as needed. Allow up to 3 weeks for delivery.

Exercise caution when handling a collection box filled with rechargeable aspire one batteries and cell phones. It may cause personal injury if dropped. If a collection box breaks and releases its contents, place the rechargeable batteries and cell phones into a new collection box.

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Thinkpad 60 Series “frozen to death” (freeze) solution

June 16th, 2009 Tagged bios, death, freeze, ibm, laptop, thinkpad

Thinkpad 60 Series “frozen to death” (freeze) solution

Freezing to death is not clear as characteristics, mainly performance freeze, screen images can be seen, but can not operate as if time stopped, the Thinkpad T40 battery hard disk light does not flash, other lights lit normal, press the power button can only be forced to restart, restart without self-test. Take it to service station hardware, the operation shows all normal. This may not be Thinkpad X60 battery probelm, but Core 2 series processor problems. Thinkpad currently address these issues, and Intel have been carried out corresponding measures. Of course, this does not solve the fundamental problem of freezing to death, but has been greatly eased, and so will be to minimize the probability of occurrence.

Solve this problem in five steps:

Step one: Upgrade BIOS, Lenovo officials online have the latest BIOS version 2.19
Download link, http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-63024,
Of course, also mentioned the need to upgrade, and strongly recommended, which the BIOS upgrade in the history of Thinkpad X60S battery is also relatively rare. BIOS upgrade would not say, and in accordance with the step by step readme on the list, no less dangerous, but should pay attention to the battery and AC must be used to prevent power outages, upgrade other programs to close, remember to turn off antivirus software and firewall.

The second step, Intel dual-core patch upgrade, download links
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256/zh-cn, even after the patch upgrade some manual operation, see the details, http://publish.it168.com/2007/0425/20070425015807. shtml.

The third step is to upgrade Intel micro-code of your thinkpad T60 battery, download link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa … 0 & displaylang = zh-cn, the most simple, you can click Run.

The fourth step, upgrading your Thinkpad T61 battery graphics card driver, download links
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62841

The fifth step, upgrade the Thinkpad battery power management process, the download link
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4GXPEG
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-61583

That’s all.

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Laptop battery using mistakes

June 14th, 2009 Tagged battery, laptop, mistakes, using

Laptop battery using mistakes

Lives Longer In BIOS? – This is one of the few troubleshooting diagnostic tests you can do at home to find out if your A1057 A1057 battery life problem is due to a hardware flaw or to the way the laptop is being operated. Enter the BIOS setup immediately after turning on the notebook on with a fully charged battery, usually by hitting the DEL key, the F1 or F2 key immediately after you power on. Some laptops display a text message telling you what key you need to hit to enter the BIOS setup, on others the message is suppressed by a BIOS setting, but you can always go online and Google the right key combination if it’s not in your manual. Once you bring up any BIOS screen, measure the time it takes the laptop battery to run down. If it doesn’t outlast the battery life under regular usage by a good margin, the short battery life is probably due to a faulty battery or a hardware failure that causes the laptop to continually suck power when it shouldn’t.

AC Adapter Noisy? For starters, this is one of those problems that tends to bother more women than men, because men lose their high frequency hearing at a much earlier age than women. Battery chargers typically include a transformer and some power IC’s, at least a bridge rectifier. There’s a lot of potential for humming and whistling with transformers, but they can go on operating that way for years without failing. If the battery charger gets very hot, then it’s time to check the manufacturer specs for temperature and see if it needs replacement, and check the U4873 D5318 battery temperature as well. In all cases, the acoustic behavior of your AC power adapter and charger may naturally vary with the quality of the power from the utility, and the feed voltage if you are traveling. Anytime you can avoid running a computer on poorly regulated or intermittent utility power you should do so, but at least with a laptop you’re better off than with a desktop.

OS Battery Management Active? Older notebooks were equipped with hardware only battery management schemes that controlled both charging and battery operation. All new laptops ship with ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface) which is a marriage between BIOS routines that monitor board level charging and device activity, and the operating system. The operating system power management comes equipped with a number of default profiles that instruct the laptop if and how to nurse the U4873 D5318 battery. There’s usually a power user profile that just runs full out with no consideration of battery life, a number of special purpose profiles, such as running a DVD movie for a sole task, and a miserly setting that cuts performance to a minimum and puts devices like the hard drive to sleep when not in frequent use.

You can micro-manage these profiles to suit your needs, and you can always go into the settings and override them or change the profile at any time. The most useful trick to remember for running on G5266 HD438 KD186 battery is how to brighten or dim the LCD screen using the the function screen. Screen brightness is a serious power drain (you’re essentially powering a small fluorescent lightbulb) and in most indoor usages, strategic choice of where you sit can add time to your battery life. When troubleshooting battery life issues, you may want to run a power management profile that doesn’t come up to your expectations for performance for a few battery cycles just to help diagnose the problem.

DC Voltage Good? Check the voltage at the output of your AC adapter with a DC voltmeter, right on the barrel connector that gets plugged into the laptop. The rule of thumb for acceptable readings on power adapter output is usually a 5% variation either way of the faceplate voltage, and in terms of charging a G5266 HD438 KD186 battery, a high reading is better than a low reading. If you’ve purchased a lightweight battery charger for travel, don’t assume that it’s putting out the correct voltage just because there’s a connector that fit your notebook. Check your owners manual or the label on the original battery charger that came with the notebook.

LED For Charging Blink? While there’s no universal standard, a blinking LED on the battery charge indicator is probably not good news. It often indicates a battery that has been over-discharged, the voltage is so low that it’s confusing the charging circuitry into thinking the battery has a dead cell and would just overheat if a charge is pushed into it. The newer the laptop, the smarter the charging logic, and it won’t want to try putting a charge into a battery that may damage either the battery or the notebook itself. In some cases, you’ll be able to recharge an over depleted inspiron B130 battery if you wait until the notebook is shut down, install the battery, and then plug in the the battery charger, but I’d keep a close eye (and occasional finger) on it for overheating. There are also fuel gauges built into some newer batteries that simply disable the battery when it reaches it’s planned cycle life.

Does Battery Get Hot? Recently there have been a spate of high profile stories in the media about laptop batteries catching fire. This wasn’t caused by normal heating due to charging. The problem was in the manufacturing process of the individual cells, where apparently some contamination led to internal short circuits that could cause the battery to overheat even if it wasn’t in use. Powerbook G4 batteries normally heat up a little on charging, and they heat up even more when discharging under heavy demand. Battery packs usually include a temperature cut-off circuit, that will halt battery charging or discharging if it really overheats. In some cases, the battery will not be usable afterwards because the cut-off acts like a circuit breaker that can’t be easily reset.

It certainly doesn’t do your laptop battery any good to get very hot, even if it’s within the toleration of the protective circuitry, so if it’s overheating on discharge, consider running on AC power instead. Just remember you have to shut down before removing the Acer 3000 battery unless it’s specified as being hot-swapable:-) You can also try decreasing the performance settings to lower the power drain. If the battery is overheating on charging, you can try charging when the laptop is turned off since the laptop is generating heat as well. Also, pay attention to the ambient air temperature. All notebook computers depend on the ambient air for cooling, so unless you are running the computer on a special cooling pad, think twice about using it on those 110 degree days!

Latch Locks Tight? It’s impossible to see what’s going on with the connector contact inside the battery compartment once the battery is installed, so the only indicator you have to proper installation (aside from normal operation) is the condition of the latch. If the latching mechanism doesn’t show a positive close by clicking back to the relaxed position, try reinstalling the battery. Some laptops have a manual battery lock that is operating separately from the latches, and which will not lock unless the battery is installed properly. If the latches refuse to click closed on their own, remove the battery again, visually inspect for any bulging or distortions in the package, and check the connector for damage.