When should you replace your Laptop battery?
A battery is a collection of cells that can store energy in a chemical form and convert that stored chemical energy into electrical energy when needed. At present, most of the manufacturers use Lithium Ions for battery because lithium is light weight, has the greatest electro-chemical potential and provides the largest energy density for its weight.
No matter how well you treat your laptop’s battery, it will eventually die. Battery death can seem sudden, but it doesn’t have to. Windows will warn you when your battery reaches extremely low capacity levels, but you can also keep your eyes on its capacity and performance.
At that time, you may have few questions roaming on your mind, those are
AnsLet me answer them one by one.
If you face any battery backup issue, you feel backup is being reduced to marginal and you’ve to connect charger to refill it, but it is taking lot of time. Then, YES you should change the Battery.
Once you remove the Power Adapter, if your laptop soon goes to power-off stage with Battery, then it’s a clear signal to change your battery Now.
Sometimes battery is kept on charging for 3 hours but still you have only few percent of battery been charged, in that case sometime this issue comes because of the software issues. Update your battery drivers in device managers and update latest version of BIOS, if you are using any manufacturer battery management tool, you should update that as well. If problem persists, you need to replace the battery.
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Few main things you need to check would be your battery capacity. As I mentioned earlier, after few years in operation, all the batteries lose their charging capacity that cause lower backup time. At that time, you need to check battery report. There is an inbuilt option available in Microsoft Windows which enables to check the status of your laptop battery.
Please follow procedure mentioned below to check your battery report.
Choosing correct Battery is very simple, just make sure you know few things one is battery model number or at least laptop model. Second thing check your battery interface that means the connector which is connects to your battery with laptop. It should be exactly same no hacks applicable here.
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You should better buy Genuine Laptop battery from Laptop manufacture directly, but you have other option also available to go with compatible batteries that works the same way but won’t give same backup as original brand battery - as you are saving some bucks here it could be smart choice for short term but you may regret your decision with time 😊.
While finding best supported battery for your Laptop, you must consider the following factors.
- Connector type
- Battery capacity
- Power ratings
