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Battery life seems fairly short. How long should

Battery life seems fairly short. How long should the battery supply operation time?

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Hi,
In most laptops the standard idle life is around 3 - 4 hours. The drain from the internet can cut this down to between 1 - 1 and a half hours. Using games is around the same or less than what the internet takes and if your using an office application it is around 3 - 4 hours.
Using the laptop for power hungry multitasking will reduce battery life dramatically.




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The battery seems to be fully charged but when i go for a short drive all the lights go down to one red . it stops then goes up then back down again.

There are 2 possible reasons for your issue. The first could be your battery has reached end of life. Batteries can go bad very easily even if they are fairly new. Excessive charging, shorts, or just bad from the factory all contribute to this. Age however is not. I would search on Amazon for a cheap compatible replacement battery and see if the new battery fixes your problem.

The second issue could be your charger. Along with my suggestion of replacing the battery, you can often find a charger and battery replacement bundle for very cheap online so you might want to take advantage of that. If you charge the battery in the camera itself, that may require a service call.

Hope this helps!
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The Most Important Considerations of Using Laptop Battery

1, when no external power supply situation, if the working conditions at the time slot being less than PCMCIA cards, it is recommended to remove the card first to extend battery life.
2, room temperature (20-30 degrees) for optimum battery working temperature, the temperature is too high or too low, the operating environment will reduce battery time.
3, can provide stable power supply environment, using a laptop computer, remove the battery for extended battery life is not right by. On Asus notebooks, when fully charged battery, the battery charging circuit will automatically shut down, so the phenomenon of overcharging does not occur.
4, the recommended average of three months to conduct a battery power correction action.
5, to minimize the number of NIKON en-el3e battery
The battery charge and discharge is directly related to life, one charge, the battery a step forward to retirement. Suggest that you use an external power supply,
6, the use of an external power supply when the battery removed.
Some users often plug the power several times a day, and the laptop is equipped with batteries, do more damage to the battery. Because each access to the equivalent of an external power supply to charge the battery once the battery life shortened by a natural.
7, after the exhaustion of battery charge and avoid the long charging time
Regardless of your notebook to use nickel-metal hydride or lithium electricity, to power after the exhaustion of a certain charge (charge less than 1%), which is the best way to avoid the memory effect. Lithium also have memory effect, but its memory effect smaller than nickel-metal hydride Bale.
8, the usual precautions
When used in peacetime to prevent exposure to prevent damp to prevent the erosion of chemical liquids, avoid contact with the metal battery contacts, etc. happen.
When you purchase your laptop battery
Laptop battery life - as no more than 3 to 4 years, it may be users of the most likely to replace things. Two years after the laptop, you will find the battery consumption and faster. If possible, you can replace the old batteries for new batteries to ensure the stable operation of the computer.
When the need to replace the notebook computer batteries, best to choose the same type of battery replacement. However, if the old computer using a nickel-metal hydride batteries, to make a longer battery life, of course, can also be specified by the computer user manual or manufacturers recommended models use lithium batteries. Although the nickel-metal hydride batteries for cheap, but there is memory effect, and in the same capacity than the lithium batteries under the weight of large, and lithium batteries have no memory effect, light weight, power supply for a long time, etc., has become a standard notebook computer batteries . Lithium batteries used in notebook computers at this stage because the different manufacturers in the power of time there are some gaps, and friends in the purchase process should be noted that different brands of the difference in the Sony vgp-bsp13/s Battery, the best among several brands compare.
Performance battery power supply in addition to the stated time manufacturers, but also need to pay attention to their capacity. Battery capacity is usually AH (ampere-hour, ampere-hour) calculated with the current laptop is 4000AH most about, and a battery can last for 2 hours or more. In addition to the battery power supply time by the whole power of computers and the impact of factors such as heat dissipation, the screen size (bigger and more power), screen brightness, and the implementation of the work and so will affect the power of time.
Now the price of laptop battery up and down the ocean in 1000, accounting to 10% of overall price notebook - about some of the ultra-thin models or even higher. The battery warranty period, is guaranteed 3 months, and is guaranteed six months, the longest, but also for 1 year; the reason why the warranty time is short battery laptop battery is easy because of consumables, the number of charge is constant, with a little time. Moreover, the laptop battery and other hardware different, there is no room for repairs, can only be a new one. The products of such a long warranty (replacement), intangibles to increase the burden on manufacturers, so buy laptop, be sure ask the battery warranty period and conditions.
Also in the purchase of second-hand laptop computers, they also do not forget to try it inside the battery can continue to work long. Under normal circumstances, the use of one or two years after the laptop is fully charged, the nickel-metal hydride battery can support about 1 hour or so computers at work, lithium-ion battery can support nearly 3 hours, but relative to the terms of this new battery requirements are already very low, and able to meet this target from the scrap to the battery of far away.
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If you need replacement laptop batteries, There are two professional battery shop

UK http://www.global-battery.co.uk/laptop-batteries.htm
US http://www.sales-battery.com/laptop-batteries.htm
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How do I check if it's my Powakaddy battery or the charger is faulty as the battery on lasted 8 holes and the charger green light was on when fully charged

Batteries have a limited life and depending how old they are and what sort of life they have had depends on the likelihood of whether the battery or batteries are faulty or have a reduced capacity.

Being left discharged or semi-discharged for more than a few days, or a few weeks, operating in a hot climate, overheating during charging or being subjected to inappropriate loads are a few of the things that shorten the life of a battery or reduce it's capacity. A quality traction battery is good for around 500 charge/discharge cycles if it is operated in ideal conditions. Employing a short top-up charge whenever convenient can extend that number many times.

Considering what I have said it could be a good idea to replace the battery considering you need a fair level of reliability - there aren't many short cuts on the golf course.

Testing a battery properly is quite a long process even though there are hi-tech testers that claim to carry out in an instant what used to take a couple of weeks. Testing a wet battery is easier than testing a gel battery.

A digital voltmeter can provide a rule-of-thumb sort of test. Leaving the freshly charged battery to stand for several hours to disperse any surface charge the terminal voltage is then measured. A healthy fully-charged battery has 2.2 volts per cell. That is 13.2 volts for a 12 volt battery. A 12 volt battery that registers 12 volts is only half charged (or faulty) and of a limited practical use.
Less than 12.7 volts and the freshly charged battery needs replacing unless it is used for very light loads. 12.7 volts and above offers varying degrees of serviceability but less than 12.9 volts and the battery is past its prime.

Testing the charger thoroughly can also take some time and expertise but if the battery doesn't become any warmer than a baby's bathwater during charging and the terminal voltage of the battery while the charger is connected doesn't rise above the specifications for the charger, typically around 15 volts depending on charger type, the charger would seem to be doing the job.
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Wont turn on with new battery in it

Is the new battery actually new? or is it a good one pulled from something else? This can make a difference. I have also found bad batteries on the store shelf.
It is also potentially old enough to have a layer of corrosion develop on battery contacts, Sometimes rolling the battery against each contact and then installing the battery is enough to cllean it to operational conditioin. Also make sure battery is installed in the correct orientation.

They also have a fairly short imaging tube life too but you would see some signs of life in the unit.
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In my home using 100AH battery for inverter , want to know wht happens if the baterry is not connected to inverter ? Is battery life decreases..? or WHAT ELSE WILL HAPPENS TO BATTERY ..? plz give an...

It depends upon the type of UPS.

A true UPS requires a battery to be connected to the inverter at all times. Mains power is used to charge the battery constantly and battery is required to continually supply power to the inverter which then converts the voltage to mains supply voltage.

A lower powered and cheaper type UPS areswitch-over types, when the mains supply fails, the UPS switches over to thebatteries and the inverter in milli-seconds which then supplies mains power to thecomputer and peripherals.
This type UPS may operate without a battery, but it depends upon the design of the UPS and the battery error detection system In most cases I doubt it can operate without a battery. You can try the UPS without a battery, make sure the battery terminals do not short against each other.
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I use aa battery's in my camera but they only take 5 to 10 pics at a time.......is this normal or is something wrong like maybe a setting or something? what should i do to fix this?

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The most cost effective solution is probably high capacity NiMH rechargeable batteries; get a set of four so that you can have spares on hand. If even that isn't acceptable, look into getting the Lithium Ion one.

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it is the matter of battery life time-nothing wrong
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