New Lithium Battery Could Take Seconds to Charge

A new lithium Laptop battery technology might mean rapid charging and discharging times that take just seconds instead of the minutes or hours we’re used to.

Years ago, scientists thought that the reason why lithium-ion Discount laptop battery have slow charging and discharging times is because the ions travel across the battery slowly. But that wasn’t the case at all; in fact, various tests reveal that the ions are shuttled across the battery very quickly.

The real reason why charging and discharging times are slow, is that the ions can only travel through tunnels accessed from the surface. Only ions positioned immediately at the entrance of the tunnels can be shuttled across. The answer then to the slow charge/discharge cycle is to design a new surface more conducive to traveling.

I can image that in the future : we can charge my Thinkpad X31 battery, thinkpad x30 battery, Thinkpad t20 battery, Thinkpad T42 battery in 10 minuters. 

Ceder and Byoungwoo Kang from MIT addressed the need for the new surface by designing some sort of a beltway that takes the ions directly to tunnels for faster traveling. According to MIT, the new material tested could be charged AND discharged within just 10 to 20 seconds as opposed to the usual six minutes the current material of the same volume would take.

The new battery technology is an upgraded version of the current lithium iron phosphate battery as opposed to lithium cobalt because the former is not prone to overheating. Moreover, the new technology does not lose charging capacity as time goes by, allowing for the development of smaller and lighter products. Production of this new battery does not stray far from the current process, so Ceder believes it would take only two to three years to get the new technology in the market.

The article is from : pcmag.com

New battery can not be fully-charged

New battery can not be fully-charged

Generally the new battery can 100% fully discharge-charge. Last month I buy a latitude d820 battery replacement, as my work dont need to take the notebook out, so I use the notebook with the AC adapter and I store the battery in my drawer. Last Friday, I want to visite my customer with my notebook and show some business projects. So I charged my battery for a whole night, but I only see my battery 70% capacity state charged next morning. My battery is really new, why it can not be 100% charged?

So I query the battery expert Jack Smith that the reason “Why new battery can not be fully charged?”. He said that : after the laptop battery not use for a long time, the battery charge must in the low current in the right system power option. And then he give me some adviese to set the power Option. Now I introduce the tips for my readers step by step with detail photos.

A .windows xp system:

1) Go to Start/Control Panel/Power Options and look for the “Alarms” tab.

2) Choose Low Dell CF623 battery alarm and critical battery alarm to make the alarm operation to no operation untick the two boxes(see below picture)

3) Let it discharge the battery till the laptop automatically off.

4) Charge the Dell D820 battery again.
Attention:Do as below:

B: Windows vistar system:

1) Go to Start/Control Panel/Power Options/Edit Plan Settings /Battery/Low battery action/Do nothing.

2) Let it discharge the laptop battery till the laptop automatically off.


3) Charge the battery again.

In the end if you still cant fully charge your laptop battery, you can calibrate the battery and then use the battery fresh program to refresh your battery to calibrate the battery charge-discharge time.

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Notebook battery fully charge and discharge error

Notebook battery fully charge and discharge error

Notebook computer equipped with the original battery, after a period of time after use, there will inevitably be the case of standby time. Some users said: “depth with repeated charge-discharge method, be able to resume the performance of the battery, thereby extending the battery life.

To a correct understanding of this issue, start a notebook about the type of laptop battery used. As we all know, in 1995, before the production of notebook computers are basically used to power nickel-cadmium batteries. In the use of such batteries, if not the correct way of charging and discharging, the battery will have a “memory effect”, thereby reducing the battery’s actual capacity, the elimination of this “memory effect” is the best way to repeatedly charge and discharge depth manner. With the emergence of nickel-hydrogen batteries, battery capacity has improved significantly, but the “memory effect” did not completely eliminate the shortcomings.

In recent years, lithium-ion batteries in notebook computers has been rapidly increasing, largely as a result of lithium-ion batteries have been the elimination of the “memory effect” problem, it is used repeatedly to restore the depth of latitude D800 battery charge-discharge performance of the method is not applied. But why lithium-ion battery capacity or the will to reduce the problem? Have a fundamental reason for this situation is used in notebook computers and the original lithium-ion battery in the built-in battery management systems.

Battery Management: At present, in notebook computers, almost all adopted the “battery management” and “charge-discharge control” of two chip-level management systems. The “battery management chip” placed in the notebook computer itself, the chip registers in the memory of the computer used in the capacity of lithium-ion inspiron 8600 battery, operating temperature, ID serial number, charge-discharge state, the cumulative number of charge-discharge and other important information. In the use of these data, the need to constantly refresh the actual situation. The battery built-in “chip control charge and discharge” the most important role is to monitor and control the battery charge and discharge the entire process and be documented.

Charge: Lithium-ion rechargeable battery the whole process is divided into “fast charge constant-current” and “reduced charge constant current” two stages. The so-called “constant current fast charge” means charge has just begun, the charge current and charge voltage to follow a fixed battery terminal voltage gradually increased until they reach their nominal voltage of the charging method. When the inspiron 630m battery terminal voltage has reached the standard value, the controller will automatically turn into “reduced charge constant current” phase, when the charging voltage will no longer continue to rise, while the charge current to follow the battery capacity is rising gradually diminishing, and eventually reach zero, so they all completed a GK479 GD761 battery charging process.

At the same time, the charge generated by the process of charging voltage, current and time data curves will be recorded in the VGP-BPS5 battery’s “charge-discharge control chip” of the memory. “Battery management chip” is through access to th

ese data, calculated by the sample data such as battery capacity, which is, in Battery Information in numerical Wh read.

Fixed: After repeated charging and discharging the HP DV2000 battery after use, its built-in chip in the charge-discharge data will of course be changed. If at this time “battery management chip” has no chance to re-read the newer, more complete data, it calculated the battery capacity will not be accurate of course, to the user the feeling seems to be reducing the capacity of the Satellite A100 battery, and the fact that the actual capacity of the battery has not really reduced. Some bring their own brand of rechargeable laptop management software working principle, the process is in charge refresh “charge-discharge control chip” memory of the data, thus ensuring the “battery management chips,” the correctness of calculations.

A close look if you have the use of laptop manuals, will be found that “a month in the use of computer time, should make a full laptop battery charge and discharge operation” note. Its main purpose is to use the depth of charge and discharge the way to amend the charge and discharge control chip register data in the curve so that the battery charge control and battery nominal capacity and the actual situation, as a result the correct value of the battery capacity.

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