Nowadays so many folk use laptops as office computers, that charging-cables permanently draped across desks are a common sight. We ask, does this matter, allowing for the fact they look unsightly? You may change your mind after reading our laptop charging tips. Although your final decision may depend on your wallet.
Tips for Charging Laptops Safely This Year
One of our New Year resolutions is to cut back on our energy consumption, which determines the size of our carbon footprint. While it may seem wasteful to leave laptop batteries charging, perhaps we should ask is it safe to do so. Won’t the battery overheat, and become dangerous with all that energy pouring through?
The good news is that this should not be the case, provided the charge controller kicks in when the battery is full. Strange things happen in the world of batteries, though. Perhaps we ought not to leave our laptops charging, despite the controller.
Is It Bad for Batteries to Keep Them Charging?
The second of our laptop charging tips addresses the question whether continuous charging is good for the battery, even though it should be safe. It turns out this is a more complex poser, according to website Pocket Lint:
- Allowing a laptop battery to discharge too far, can prematurely age it.
- Laptop batteries self-discharge, even while we are not using them.
- Hence, the controller will trigger recharges even while our laptop is idle.
- The battery never cools down completely and could lose some capacity.
- A battery cannot keep recharging forever, before its chemicals run low.
Leaving a battery charging continuously, is therefore counter-productive to good battery management. Although we run the risk of the battery going flat at a critical moment. We’ll leave it up to you to decide.
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