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Can I take the battery out when using AC?
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:06 pm
by bessel
Thanks..
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:29 pm
by piquadrat
Yes you can, it's even good for the battery. Batteries don't like heat, so taking them out of the warm notebook can't be bad. Furthermore, you can avoid unnecessary charge/discharge cycles.
Of course you'll loose all unsaved data in the event of a power outage.
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:35 pm
by bessel
Yes I just tried. My intention was not to extend the battery life but to optimize the ventilation. However I found that the temperatures of both the CPU and GPU actually went
up by about 3 degrees celcius after the battery was removed.
piquadrat wrote:Yes you can, it's even good for the battery. Batteries don't like heat, so taking them out of the warm notebook can't be bad. Furthermore, you can avoid unnecessary charge/discharge cycles.
Of course you'll loose all unsaved data in the event of a power outage.
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:42 pm
by GomJabbar
Unless you are connected to an UPS, I would not recommend it. See following recent thread:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=25794
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:20 am
by CupOfJoe
piquadrat wrote:Yes you can, it's even good for the battery. Batteries don't like heat, so taking them out of the warm notebook can't be bad. Furthermore, you can avoid unnecessary charge/discharge cycles.
Of course you'll loose all unsaved data in the event of a power outage.
I recently started a thread with the exact same subject -- and received a conflicting answer to that of this thread.
See:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=
Personally, I wouldn't remove the battery while on AC (i.e., hot swapping it is a no-no.)
-CupOfJoe