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Old June 24th 18, 07:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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nospam wrote:
In article , KenW
wrote:

Today's laptops stop charging when the battery is at 100%. At least
that is what the indicators show.


all battery operated products stop charging when the battery is fully
charged.

otherwise, bad things happen, like fires and explosions, and customers
don't like that very much.


"all battery operated products stop charging"
---

Actually, they don't. Not all of them.

Ask Black and Decker, how not to design electronics.

The cheapest charger you can make, is just a resistor
and a DC supply of some sort. And, to save money, that's
what you get in products sometimes.

Because Lithium is a hazard and can end up as a
Class Action lawsuit or a suit for damages, that's
why they were pretty well forced to spend a few extra
bucks for precision silicon charging solutions. One
too many news reports, of a product catching fire,
tends to do that.

If a product uses SLA or NiCd, you can trickle charge
those. The user might not know they're shortening product
life by not unplugging it after a charge cycle is
complete. The manufacturer of the product stands
to gain from this design shortcoming.

It's not intelligence. It's not "doing good design".
Cheapness comes first. Safety, only if you get caught
doing something unsafe.

There are products which will "trickle charge forever"
if you don't unplug them. Using a resistor for $0.05
will do that for you.

If all products had precision charging, no matter
what battery type, we would not have to "manage" the
product by unplugging the AC adapter (manually) at
the correct time.

Paul
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Old June 24th 18, 08:11 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , Paul
wrote:

Today's laptops stop charging when the battery is at 100%. At least
that is what the indicators show.


all battery operated products stop charging when the battery is fully
charged.

otherwise, bad things happen, like fires and explosions, and customers
don't like that very much.


"all battery operated products stop charging"
---

Actually, they don't. Not all of them.


yes they very definitely do. otherwise things go boom.

when a battery reaches full charge, charging either switches to a
maintenance charge to counter the self-discharge rate or it idles until
the battery self-discharges below a threshold, at which point, charging
resumes.

the days of dumb chargers are long gone.

Ask Black and Decker, how not to design electronics.

The cheapest charger you can make, is just a resistor
and a DC supply of some sort. And, to save money, that's
what you get in products sometimes.


only ****ty products, and not ones with lithium ion batteries, which at
a minimum have their own protection circuitry in the battery itself but
may also have a built in charger so that they can be charged off any dc
supply.

Because Lithium is a hazard and can end up as a
Class Action lawsuit or a suit for damages, that's
why they were pretty well forced to spend a few extra
bucks for precision silicon charging solutions. One
too many news reports, of a product catching fire,
tends to do that.


no, that's not why, however, some manufacturers do skimp on the
protection circuitry, which is why noname batteries are best avoided.

manufacturing defects can also cause problems with lithium ion
batteries. just ask samsung.

If a product uses SLA or NiCd, you can trickle charge
those.


all battery types can be trickle charged, however, the specifics will
vary, depending on the chemistry.

The user might not know they're shortening product
life by not unplugging it after a charge cycle is
complete. The manufacturer of the product stands
to gain from this design shortcoming.


no they don't.

customers aren't likely to buy another product from the same
manufacturer when the one they previously had failed and/or when
competing products last much longer.

It's not intelligence. It's not "doing good design".
Cheapness comes first. Safety, only if you get caught
doing something unsafe.

There are products which will "trickle charge forever"
if you don't unplug them. Using a resistor for $0.05
will do that for you.


no it won't.

trickle charging requires property detecting eoc and then dropping the
charge rate.

If all products had precision charging, no matter
what battery type, we would not have to "manage" the
product by unplugging the AC adapter (manually) at
the correct time.


users don't have to manage charging by manually unplugging the device
except for very old products that have dumb chargers, which are mostly
obsolete.

modern products can be left plugged in all the time without risk and
without impacting battery longevity.

of course, no device is immune to defects. nothing is perfect.
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Old June 24th 18, 08:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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ghyrpejsekieddrjiljhy wrote:
On 6/24/2018 3:17 AM, NY wrote:

Is there anything I should be doing differently so the battery won't
die after a couple of years?


My phone came with a turbo charger that will fully charge my depleted
battery in an hour or so. I've often wondered the same thing. Should I
use a standard charger to save on battery life because it seemed to me
the fast charge would add extra stress to the battery? I settled on
using the standard charger overnight and the turbo charger when I needed
the quick charge. Then I read that overnight charging is bad. So I tried
wireless charging but then the phone became very hot so that seemed bad
also. Can't win.

Bottom line: I said screw it and just used whatever was convenient. The
battery is now 2 years old and I notice no difference from when it was
new... :-/


http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._ion_batteries

"Increasing the charge current does not hasten the *full-charge* state
by much. Although the battery reaches the voltage peak quicker, the
saturation charge will take longer accordingly. With higher current,
Stage 1 is shorter but the saturation during Stage 2 will take longer.

A high current charge will, however, quickly fill the battery to about
70 percent.
"

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/

See the graph on this page, for what turbo charging is doing to the battery.
There's some apparent capacity loss from the abuse.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._fast_chargers

*******

Not all battery chemistries or designs, tolerate turbo charging.
For example, the 5 amp hour and 8 amp hour NiCd D cell batteries,
they only charge at C/10 and take ten to sixteen hours. I
learned this, by actually downloading a datasheet for one
such product. And the info is in the datasheet, as to what
charging modes are acceptable. The slow charging rate,
makes determining the end-point harder for that chemistry.

In the case of Lithium, they seem to use a simple voltage
threshold, to detect end of Stage 1. This simplifies charger
chip design a lot. Other battery chemistries use dV/dt, and
if the cell voltage drops for a minute or two, after
gradually rising for a number of hours, that's a sign to the
battery charger, that the cell is full. If you set the
constant current charging level to a low value, it makes
it difficult to detect the "end point" - the dV/dt "bump"
is too small and is lost in the measurement noise. So if you
were contemplating designing your own battery charger for a
large NiCd, you have to charge it fast enough so you
can precisely stop charging it. Using dV/dt and noticing
the voltage effect caused by cell pressure. Some
battery chemistries could have benefited from an
actual pressure sensor inserted inside the battery,
but like "belt and suspenders", if the pressure sensor
failed, you still need an electronic charge termination
scheme as a backup. So nothing is gained, in a cost-sensitive
world.

On some chemistries, there are thermal effects, pressure
effects, dV/dt, and some chargers for example, actually
have a thermistor to detect the temperature rise
near the end of the charge cycle. Like an autonomous
vehicle with "sensor fusion", a well designed charger
can observe multiple parameters, in an effort to
detect failures in the charging scheme. (If you miss
dV/dt, the temp rise can tell you to "stop what you're doing".)

Paul
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Old June 24th 18, 08:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 6/24/2018 11:25 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , ghyrpejsekieddrjiljhy
wrote:


The wife's iPhone battery swelled up so much it popped the case


that's a defective battery and apple will replace it for no charge, as
it poses a danger to you and those around you.


That would be nice but Apple didn't seem to care much about my safety
when I called. They still wanted big $$$ to replace an out of warranty
battery.
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Old June 24th 18, 08:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:27:34 +0100, Stephen
wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:02:09 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

To the OP: What kind of laptop has a battery that is not easily
replaceable? Tablets and phones, but now laptops, too?

HP Envy for 1.


HP offers battery replacement info for at least one of their Envy models
he https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04351268

It looks inconvenient, but certainly not impossible.

Anything with an Apple logo......


I don't own anything with an Apple logo, so thanks for that.


In 2018, that's the first thing a savvy buyer looks for
when shopping at the Best Buy. Tip the unit over,
look for a removable battery. No battery removal ?
Keep moving down the aisle until you find a
maintainable product with a removable battery pack.

Paul
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Old June 24th 18, 08:49 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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nospam wrote:
In article , Paul
wrote:

Today's laptops stop charging when the battery is at 100%. At least
that is what the indicators show.
all battery operated products stop charging when the battery is fully
charged.

otherwise, bad things happen, like fires and explosions, and customers
don't like that very much.

"all battery operated products stop charging"
---

Actually, they don't. Not all of them.


yes they very definitely do. otherwise things go boom.

when a battery reaches full charge, charging either switches to a
maintenance charge to counter the self-discharge rate or it idles until
the battery self-discharges below a threshold, at which point, charging
resumes.

the days of dumb chargers are long gone.

Ask Black and Decker, how not to design electronics.

The cheapest charger you can make, is just a resistor
and a DC supply of some sort. And, to save money, that's
what you get in products sometimes.


only ****ty products, and not ones with lithium ion batteries, which at
a minimum have their own protection circuitry in the battery itself but
may also have a built in charger so that they can be charged off any dc
supply.

Because Lithium is a hazard and can end up as a
Class Action lawsuit or a suit for damages, that's
why they were pretty well forced to spend a few extra
bucks for precision silicon charging solutions. One
too many news reports, of a product catching fire,
tends to do that.


no, that's not why, however, some manufacturers do skimp on the
protection circuitry, which is why noname batteries are best avoided.

manufacturing defects can also cause problems with lithium ion
batteries. just ask samsung.

If a product uses SLA or NiCd, you can trickle charge
those.


all battery types can be trickle charged, however, the specifics will
vary, depending on the chemistry.

The user might not know they're shortening product
life by not unplugging it after a charge cycle is
complete. The manufacturer of the product stands
to gain from this design shortcoming.


no they don't.

customers aren't likely to buy another product from the same
manufacturer when the one they previously had failed and/or when
competing products last much longer.

It's not intelligence. It's not "doing good design".
Cheapness comes first. Safety, only if you get caught
doing something unsafe.

There are products which will "trickle charge forever"
if you don't unplug them. Using a resistor for $0.05
will do that for you.


no it won't.

trickle charging requires property detecting eoc and then dropping the
charge rate.

If all products had precision charging, no matter
what battery type, we would not have to "manage" the
product by unplugging the AC adapter (manually) at
the correct time.


users don't have to manage charging by manually unplugging the device
except for very old products that have dumb chargers, which are mostly
obsolete.

modern products can be left plugged in all the time without risk and
without impacting battery longevity.

of course, no device is immune to defects. nothing is perfect.


http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._metal_hydride

"NiMH dislikes overcharge, and the trickle charge
is set to around 0.05C.

NiCd is better at absorbing overcharge and the original
NiCd chargers had a trickle charge of 0.1C.
"

The latter statement, allows a disreputable manufacturer to
design a C/10 resistor-based charger, that ruins the battery
by charging it forever. The C/10 rate of trickle, overlaps
with the C/10 of "regular charging", so the manufacturer
calls that a good deal and uses a $0.05 resistor that
charges all the live-long day. Until the battery is baked
from this. Then you wonder why that battery pack for the
electric screwdriver you never use, has no capacity left.

They will do whatever they can get away with. Profit.

Your Dust Buster would work the same way. No intelligent
silicon in the charge circuit, just a $0.05 resistor and C/10
(10 to 16 hour) full charge time.

Paul
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Old June 24th 18, 09:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , ghyrpejsekieddrjiljhy
wrote:


The wife's iPhone battery swelled up so much it popped the case


that's a defective battery and apple will replace it for no charge, as
it poses a danger to you and those around you.


That would be nice but Apple didn't seem to care much about my safety
when I called. They still wanted big $$$ to replace an out of warranty
battery.


don't call. they just read from a script.

take it into an apple store, where they can see the swelling.
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Old June 24th 18, 09:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , Paul
wrote:

If all products had precision charging, no matter
what battery type, we would not have to "manage" the
product by unplugging the AC adapter (manually) at
the correct time.


users don't have to manage charging by manually unplugging the device
except for very old products that have dumb chargers, which are mostly
obsolete.

modern products can be left plugged in all the time without risk and
without impacting battery longevity.

of course, no device is immune to defects. nothing is perfect.


http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._metal_hydride

"NiMH dislikes overcharge, and the trickle charge
is set to around 0.05C.

NiCd is better at absorbing overcharge and the original
NiCd chargers had a trickle charge of 0.1C.
"


consumer products haven't used nicad in a very long time and nimh isn't
normally used for phones or laptops anymore.

most stuff uses lithium ion because of the higher power density.

in any event, there is no need to manually plug and unplug a charger
anymore, nor was there even when nicad/nimh were common.

chargers can (and will) detect eoc and switch to trickle. not doing so
is a safety hazard.
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Old June 24th 18, 10:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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nospam wrote:
In article , ghyrpejsekieddrjiljhy
wrote:



The wife's iPhone battery swelled up so much it popped the case


that's a defective battery and apple will replace it for no charge, as
it poses a danger to you and those around you.


That would be nice but Apple didn't seem to care much about my safety
when I called. They still wanted big $$$ to replace an out of warranty
battery.


don't call. they just read from a script.


take it into an apple store, where they can see the swelling.


Genius appointment first before going in! But do they usually batteries
in stock to replace right away?

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In article , Ant
wrote:

The wife's iPhone battery swelled up so much it popped the case

that's a defective battery and apple will replace it for no charge, as
it poses a danger to you and those around you.

That would be nice but Apple didn't seem to care much about my safety
when I called. They still wanted big $$$ to replace an out of warranty
battery.


don't call. they just read from a script.


take it into an apple store, where they can see the swelling.


Genius appointment first before going in!


they do walk-ins

But do they usually batteries
in stock to replace right away?


they do now because of the huge influx of people wanting a battery
replacement even though they don't actually need one.
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Old June 25th 18, 12:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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nospam wrote:

ghyrpejsekieddrjiljhy wrote:



The wife's iPhone battery swelled up so much it popped the
case


that's a defective battery and apple will replace it for no
charge, as it poses a danger to you and those around you.


That would be nice but Apple didn't seem to care much about my
safety when I called. They still wanted big $$$ to replace an out
of warranty battery.


don't call. they just read from a script. take it into an apple
store, where they can see the swelling.


It was the Apple store that I talked to on the phone. I should drive an
hour to the same store in the hope that they will change their mind?
No thanks. It took me less than hour to replace the battery myself. Not
to mention the big savings in my future sans Apple products...

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Old June 25th 18, 07:33 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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nospam wrote:
In article , Ant
wrote:


The wife's iPhone battery swelled up so much it popped the case

that's a defective battery and apple will replace it for no charge, as
it poses a danger to you and those around you.

That would be nice but Apple didn't seem to care much about my safety
when I called. They still wanted big $$$ to replace an out of warranty
battery.


don't call. they just read from a script.


take it into an apple store, where they can see the swelling.


Genius appointment first before going in!


they do walk-ins


Doesn't that take longer with all those people in the crowded stores? :O


But do they usually batteries
in stock to replace right away?


they do now because of the huge influx of people wanting a battery
replacement even though they don't actually need one.


Oh good. No need to ask for battery orders like the $29 iPhone batteries
in the beginning.

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Old June 26th 18, 01:11 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul wrote:

In the case of Lithium, they seem to use a simple voltage
threshold, to detect end of Stage 1.


Hey Paul,

Without looking, I doubt they use a trickle charge since lithium does
not leak like prior technologies.

I am still going by the principle "the slower the better". If it works
with lithium, it would be especially useful with lithium given the fact
there is very little leakage current. You can take longer to charge the
battery while wasting very little energy due to leakage.

If I need it charged quickly, so be it. But if there is no hurry, then
there is no reason to hurry.

Someone told me they last longest when they are kept around half
capacity.

One familiar warning is to avoid discharging lithium to zero, in dumb
devices.

That's all I know...
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Old June 26th 18, 01:19 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Paul wrote:

If you own a UPS, you can run the laptop off the adapter
via the UPS, and just leave the battery unplugged. Then you're not
constantly playing with the battery like it was a yoyo :-)
The UPS takes the place of the battery in the event the
AC power goes off, and gives you time to shutdown.


Even though it is plugged in, the laptop runs off of the battery until
the battery voltage reduces to a certain point?

If it runs off of the wall when plugged in, you can just plug it into
the UPS WITHOUT removing the battery. If that is the case, I would
rather have it plugged into a voltage regulator than into a UPS.
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Old June 26th 18, 02:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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John Doe wrote:

One familiar warning is to avoid discharging lithium to zero, in dumb
devices.

That's all I know...


This is true for battery packs with multiple cells.
If you have a 14.4V battery pack, it could be using
multiple cells, and running those down to zero is
not allowed. (As the charger checks, and if it
detects a low voltage, it won't inject current.)

When you have a single cell, like my digital camera
does, you can run those down to 0 volts.

The reason you can do that, is there is no danger of
a single cell "reverse biasing itself". Whereas if
you have a battery pack with multiple cells then "N-1"
cells can strong-arm the "weak" cell and place it
under reverse bias, and cause it to plate out
metal.

In a lot of cases, if we could disassemble battery
packs and charge the cells individually, that would
be safe and effective.

Once cells become mis-matched in a battery pack,
that just accelerates the opportunity for reverse
biasing. Battery packs work best if all the batteries
are of matched capacity in amp-hours.

Paul
 




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