Originally Posted by PoloMint  As Paul says Li-Ion batteries have quite a limited number of charge/discharge cycles - probably around 500, so if you do discharge and recharge to try and preserve battery life then once a week is probably better than once a day.
I've read many places saying discharging to 40% then rechargning is better than a full discharge - don't know if this is true. I'm not sure anyone actually knows  |
From what I've read, with Lion batteries 2 half charges is equivalent to 1 full charge in terms of over life cycle chargings. Personally I believe that there's a slight loss so would always go for the full discharge/charge when on a bettery.
I have several soldering irons but that's not the problem on the Tosh (although it is on the HP - which is another story!) , it's just when rotating the DC plug it obviously skips slightly and causes the problem. Simple solution - I leave the DC lead looped over the top corner of the screen so it doesn't move around.
Incidentally, and completely off topic, I've just bought another laptop. I bought it for the software and hardware that came with it. It's an old Advent with Lexia software and EOBD plug and adaptor to plug into my Citroens and read the on-board ECUs. I can also change and write to them so I should be able to completely bugger the cars up. I've already managed to disassociate one of the ignition keys on the Xsara so that it's not recognised any more...