Extending Your PDA Battery Life
This blog holds a number of articles that describe in great detail aspects about pda batteries that include the chemical make-up of PDA batteries, PDA battery conditioning, the types of PDA's and much more.
Today I want to introduce aspects of PDA battery degradation and PDA battery loss. This post is and introduction to a longer more informative post that I'm writing and will post next.
Extending your PDA Battery Life so that you get the most cost effective use of your PDA battery begins with always keeping a spare. PDA batteries are cheap enough that owning a backup pda battery makes absolute sense. You can pick up a brand new pda battery replacement battery at Batteryship.com.
Second we have previously talked about some of the basic pda battery conditioning techniques to extend the life of your pda battery like: use the AC adapter or pda cradle at a desk, powering your pda battery down when not in use, dimming your pda screen down, and using peripherals wisely.
But with PDA batteries there is far more going on then the basic condintioning habits I mentioned above. Actually contained within your PDA Battery is a design and chemistry make-up that impacts your battery life far more than your usage activity.
For example we know that batteries are rated by their voltage, their mAh, and of course the chemicals contained within. The three technical facts about your battery give some insight into the actual life of (energy stored within) your battery.
But the length of time a pda battery can operate is not linear to the amount of energy stored in the battery. In fact their are four ongoing problems with all batteries that affect performance and the extended battery life of your pda.
They are: declining capacity, increasing internal resistance, elevated self-discharge, and premature voltage cut-off on discharge.
We will discuss each of these more on my next post.
Today I want to introduce aspects of PDA battery degradation and PDA battery loss. This post is and introduction to a longer more informative post that I'm writing and will post next.
Extending your PDA Battery Life so that you get the most cost effective use of your PDA battery begins with always keeping a spare. PDA batteries are cheap enough that owning a backup pda battery makes absolute sense. You can pick up a brand new pda battery replacement battery at Batteryship.com.
Second we have previously talked about some of the basic pda battery conditioning techniques to extend the life of your pda battery like: use the AC adapter or pda cradle at a desk, powering your pda battery down when not in use, dimming your pda screen down, and using peripherals wisely.
But with PDA batteries there is far more going on then the basic condintioning habits I mentioned above. Actually contained within your PDA Battery is a design and chemistry make-up that impacts your battery life far more than your usage activity.
For example we know that batteries are rated by their voltage, their mAh, and of course the chemicals contained within. The three technical facts about your battery give some insight into the actual life of (energy stored within) your battery.
But the length of time a pda battery can operate is not linear to the amount of energy stored in the battery. In fact their are four ongoing problems with all batteries that affect performance and the extended battery life of your pda.
They are: declining capacity, increasing internal resistance, elevated self-discharge, and premature voltage cut-off on discharge.
We will discuss each of these more on my next post.
posted by Dan Hagopian at
8:45 AM
