Battery Maintenance Tips

In order for long battery life, whatever the brand it used to be supported with good treatments and charging (charge), to either wet or dry battery or Free Maintenance (MF) battery which are now widely used in new motors.

Dry battery have price quite expensive, it takes a special trick to getting long-lasting battery and not make trouble. And the easiest way to stun the battery does not come up short, after the motor is turned on with the current starter motor which absorbs up to 400~ 500 watts, good machines remain turned on for about 15 minutes.

Most importantly, if once the starter will not on, do not try to push the starter switch constantly. Released it until about 5 seconds, then squeeze again. Given pause 5 seconds so that the battery is stable first." And if already living, better get used road, instead of settling on the spot. At that time the stun has been used back to fill, "says Ajib Rosadi, the lecturer staff at the Polytechnic campus manufactur Astra (Polman).

Conversely, the battery is often used for the ignition but the motor is difficult to live or just turned on a moment. Stun available in battery will be reduced by watts that have been used. If you frequently do, do not be surprised if the battery even faster come up short and difficult to start the engine. If it were so, must immediately discharge not let worn out.

Special dry battery or MF, recharge with special tools. For dry battery charging system is very small and stable, amounting to 0.5 amperes. "I'll stun the battery can be full, it takes 5 to 8 hours depending on size of battery.

Make Laptop Battery Live Longer

Several tips to make your laptop battery can Stand longer:

• Turn off Wi-Fi and bluetooth. Use shortcut key to instantly disable wireless networking.
• Don't play games on computer, music or DVD movies. Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries.
• Disconnect all external device like card modems, firewire, USB devices and optical drives. Use notebook touchpad instead of an external mouse.
• Adjust screen brightness, dimming your display saves battery power.
• Tweek windows Power option. Choose laptop power scheme that turns off the notebook monitor and hard disk after 10 minutes inactive.
• Decrease or mute laptop speaker volume
• turn off all scheduled task
• Turn off auto save features in Microsoft office and other applications
• Turn off or dissable built-in wireless card
• Program from CD or DVD can copied to hard drive and run from hard drive.

To make laptop battery can live longer, actually many factors affect the amount of time that a laptop battery can deliver can deliver power before it must be recharged.

• If you don't use laptop for extended periods of time, i.e. for a week or more, remove the battery pack from laptop.
• Don't put battery in high heat or freeze temperature. Don't put on your car in summer time. Hot battery can discharge very quickly, and cold ones can't create as much power.
• Make sure to plug a laptop charger adapter into a UPS and not directly into a power outlet or surge protector.
• If you have a nickel metal hydride battery, completely drain and recharge the battery once a month to maximize its capacity to hold a charge.
• Fully charge new battery packs before use. New pack needs to be fully charged and discharged (cycled) a few times before it can condition to full capacity.
• Leaving a battery in a laptop while using an electrical outlet for long periods of time will reduce the life cycle of the battery.