Google Samsung portable battery care. Thats what brand of laptop I have.
On the battery is a small pushbutton. When I press it, it gives me a few
lighted leds indicating battery charge level. (Only do it with the laptop
turned off or on the battery case with the battery removed. You don't want to
drop your laptop do you? :) )
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> From: Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>
>To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] use battery fast
>
>> The battery manual very clearly and adamantly says to do this (3 times). It
>> is a 22000mAh solar charged power panel. I believe it is so that the
>> internal charge monitoring device can calibrate itself. It has a battery
>> percentage that shows on the front and the charger is supposed to charge
>> normally until 4.2V is reached then trickle the charge off.
>
>If it's for calibration, I guess it makes some sense.
>
>> Let's put it this way: the truth about how to treat LiPo and other
>> cells are murky. I can find plenty of people saying you must break
>> them in, and plenty saying this does nothing, and plenty saying this
>> destroys the battery.
>
>As long as you don't go too low and do it just once, it largely doesn't
>do anything, indeed (tho the cells age significantly faster when
>deeply-empty or when hot, and they also age a bit faster when full).
>As far as the cells are concerned, breaking them in does them no good so
>I think the only reason someone might recommend it is for calibration
>(i.e. not for the cells themselves).
>
>But the circuitry should re-calibrate itself automatically during the
>battery's lifetime (to adapt to the changing cell capacity), so
>calibrating it at the beginning shouldn't be that important either.
>
>> I think the truth is somewhere in between. Note that most people
>> say a full cycle is needed after long storage of a LiPo cell.
>
>That's probably also for re-calibration since after a long storage the
>cell's capacity is probably reduced. But if you don't do that cycle, it
>will still work just fine (except the estimate might be a bit
>optimistic, tho this will correct itself a you use it).
>
>BTW, to drain your external battery faster, you can make it charge an
>internal battery.
>
>
> Stefan
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