Tips for lithium batteries

Lithium cells enjoy a good reputation in the same capacity, they are only half the weight of nickel batteries and less demanding to maintain, because they do not suffer from memory effect. Unfortunately, by the lithium technology holds only 300 to 500 charge cycles, it is also up to five times more expensive than the nickel equivalent.

Battery life extended by firmware update
For portable products will come onto the market, the device turns off too quickly, and it is not the entire battery capacity. For example, should the 3.6-volt lithium battery in the phone at about 3.0 volts discharged - until it is empty. Turns the mobile phone but already at 3.3 volts from left, about 30 percent of unused capacity remaining in the Dell Inspiron 1520 battery.

Your device turns off much earlier than in the technical data indicated the problem may continue a firmware update that prevents a premature shutdown. Almost all manufacturers of mobile phones, PDAs, laptops and digital cameras offer such updates on the Internet for download.

Store unused lithium batteries properly
When a lithium Dell Inspiron 1545 battery for several weeks or months are not used, it must be stored properly, otherwise it will break down. Be careful before mothballing the fact that the current donor is loaded about half full - if the charge indicator of cell phones and laptops under load show (during a call or writing to disk) about 40 to 50 percent. This will prevent that the DELL XPS M1530 battery is deeply discharged during the long storage. Then remove the battery pack from the device and store it at 15 to 18 degrees Celsius (for example, in the basement), so make sure that the chemical processes between lithium and electrolyte-electrode run as slowly as possible. Before you put the battery back in operation, you load it in the device completely.

Found for notebook operation on battery power grid
The life expectancy of a lithium Dell Inspiron 6400 battery is at room temperature for about three years - no matter whether it is needed or not. The reason: lithium electrode and electrolyte to eat slowly with time. This reduces the effective area of ??the electrode, the resistance grows, and breaks down at high current load, the battery voltage - the result: The power turns off after a few minutes of operation.

The Notebook is produced by the compact construction and inadequate ventilation lot of heat, which heats the Dell Inspiron 1525 battery up to 50 degrees. Heat accelerates the decomposition process, and the current donors are earlier than expected on the mind. Lithium batteries lose after six months, about one-third of capacity, when stored at 50 degrees - one year after leaving just the left half. If you operate the notebook often to AC power, remove the battery, so it stays cool, is not loaded and constantly lives up to twice as long.