Laptop battery replacement
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Hi,has anybody replaced a battery on a laptop?Just wondered if it was worth doing,or is it not worth the aggro.My thought is that it is probably best to buy a new laptop,but thought i would ask first,thanks,TC.
There shouldn’t be any “aggro” in replacing the battery on any laptop as far as I know. It’s just a case of opening the door underneath the laptop and removing the old one and slotting in the new one.
As far as which battery from which supplier you buy is a different matter – none of the generic non-original replacement batteries we have used have proved to be much good.
You pays your money and takes your pick!
It really depends on the laptop, how old it is, what spec it is etc. If it is still quick and responsive why not change the battery, it should give you at least a couple more years.
If on the other hand it is slow and lacks a decent memory/RAM it might be time to change it for a faster more powerful machine. You can buy batteries on Ebay cheaply and they are generally not brilliant but genuine ones can be more than the laptop is worth. Like fitter says, you pays your money………………………………
I have twice bought replacment batteries of the lion brand via ebay with no problems at all.
I just entered the numbers from the battery in the search and checked it was the same thing.
It is true that Li on batteries are generally much better than the old Ni cad/Ni mh type and don’t suffer with the memory charging problems. I used to find it was always the batteries that gave up in my power tools and replacement was often as expensive as replacing the complete tool. Since I started buying Li on battery powered tools, I find they hold their charge much longer and four years on still work without problems so battery technology has clearly improved dramatically in recent years and prices have come down too.
Thanks for replies,it looks like it might be worth changing the battery,i didn,t realize that a lot of people had done this.
My laptop is 2nd hand (from my mother) and battery wouldn’t charge so I bought a new charger as it was cheapest option (from Amazon, I think). Several years on and still going strong (touch wood).
I use my lap top for 8 hours a day, for work. I start with it unplugged and only put it on charge once it is below 10%, on site I am often on the factory floor for 6 hours or more, so having a long battery life just saves so much hassle (no searching for extension leads etc.)
after about 3 years the battery started to loose longevity, so I swapped it out for a newer generation “long life” battery , and now even after another 5 years I still get 6 – 8 hours of battery life (depending on what I am doing)
last year work supplied me with a new windows 10 HP Laptop, which I use now and again, but it has terrible battery life. but…. my old machine is windows 7 and most of the programs on it are now reaching the end of their life, so it looks like I will forced to switch to the new machine, so am currently researching “long Life” batteries for that one as well
as for the old one it will be re-purposed into an android or linux machine (like a chrome book), so that I can carry on using it for personal use.
It is true that Li on batteries are generally much better than the old Ni cad/Ni mh type and don’t suffer with the memory charging problems. I used to find it was always the batteries that gave up in my power tools and replacement was often as expensive as replacing the complete tool. Since I started buying Li on battery powered tools, I find they hold their charge much longer and four years on still work without problems so battery technology has clearly improved dramatically in recent years and prices have come down too.
I fully agree with your comments re: older and newer types of battery. But I have one remarkable exception. I have a Bosch rechargeable drill/driver that was purchased in 1986. It came with a pair of NiCad batteries as standard. Although the useful time is about half what it was when they were new, they still hold a charge to be ready for the odd moment I need them.
As someone else stated, the cost of replacements can be eye watering and quality certainly varies between generic offerings. Makes you wonder what people will have to pay when their wonderful new electric car needs a new one.
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agree about electric car batteries.
a colleague of mine in italy uses a fully electric vehicle to get around (in city) on a day to basis, and it is now 4 years old, he probably does less than 25 Miles a day, or 8000 Mile a year, as they also have a petrol car for longer journeys, and holidays etc.
he recently went to the dealer to look at a new one, and they would not take his old one in part exchange, telling him that in order to sell it they would have to replace the battery pack, and this would cost more that the car is worth !!
Isn’t it strange how all the publicity and all the people promoting the seemingly wonderful merits of the electric car never mention battery replacement. Perhaps we are supposed to imagine that the everlasting battery has been developed without anyone telling us.
even now renault only offer a 5 year or 60,000 mile warranty on the batteries, so I guess that at 61K Miles the damn thing will stop working
I have recently changed my car and did look (briefly) at a 2nd hand hybrid electric option, but as the car had done nearly 60,00 miles I was put off by all the issues warned about on the internet
as ever these things may now be becoming “Mainstream” , but still seem like toys for the rich to me
Electric cars are becoming a mainstream in Europe, but what about further down the line?
As has been stated on here , batteries have to be made and replaced .
Diesel/petrol European cars that are traded in, are not usually scrapped ,but are sent to third world countries .What will happen when the new wave of electric cars are ready to be exchanged ?
When I bought my electric bike 3 years ago, the section on care of Li On batteries suggests that if used properly the average life is 500 charge cycles. As an electric car battery is just made up of a multiple number of similar cells, I would imagine the expected life is similar. So if you charge your car twice a week you could expect to get approx 5 years from a set of cells. The cost of replacing the one battery on my ebike is around 300€. I should imagine it would be ten fold upwards for a car.
It depends whom you ask about how much a battery costs , and depends on the financial interest of the party concerned.
Electric car batteries cost ( according to the web) between €6,000 and €10,000 to replace , plus I suppose the work involved .
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