Re: Laptop Battery

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Well this is a techie forum and you already opened your dumb mouth so why
stop now ? JUST kidding :-) !!!!!!!!!



I know at one time notebook batteries had to be allowed to COMPLETELY
discharge at some point (i.e. let the thing run all the way down) to
recharge again completely. We used a TON of Toshiba notebooks at my previous
employer and these was from Toshiba tech support. It was about 10 years ago
and battery technology has no doubt changed so this might not be the case
anymore. 

Otherwise, I would take it back.

A lady at work yesterday was saying she had an HP notebook and her battery
wasn't keeping a very good charge when she was burning DVD's. I'm not sure
if she contacted HP or the place where she bought it, but they told her
burning DVD's or browsing the internet would run the battery down. I told
here burning DVD's might but the other wouldn't anymore then anything else.
They said 20-30 minutes was about right when burning DVD's but what they
could do is sell her a high output battery that would remedy this. I told
her she should have asked them why they didn't put that battery in the
notebook to BEGIN with :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:13 AM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCTECH] Laptop Battery

I recently purchased a new battery for my laptop - but it never goes beyond
63% or so charged and then stays at that level - as a result it is always
charging.

Is this likely to be harmful to the battery? - and does anyone have any
suggestions as to how to fix this?  

So far the only "cures" I have found have suggested removing the battery and
reinserting it - this I have done several times to no effect.

Also any suggestions on a good techie forum where one can ask questions such
as this without being flamed for opening your mouth?

Jon