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Should laptops remain plugged in when their battery is 100% charged?

My friend told me that if you leave the AC adaptor plug plugged into the laptop after the battery is charged 100%, it actually over charges it and never cuts off the voltage. As a result, this reduces battery life.

I have Dell n5010 n series laptop with i5 in it. It is a new machine, and I was thinking that how is it possible that huge companies leave a "bug" like this in a laptop that is so expensive.

I think that it never turns off the charging, it actually puts it to float voltage as this is one of charging techniques.

I want to know what, in fact, happens.

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Modern notebooks have advanced charging circuits that prevent this from happening.

Sven
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I is not a bug, it will happen with any lithium battery, although most modern laptops have special safeties for this problem.

Sony actually has something that makes sure you cannot overcharge it (only charges to 80%), but this means you cannot use 100% capacity of your battery.

Also in my personal experience, I have had several laptops and the only problems I ever had with batteries was with Acer laptops.

It is better to remove the battery when you are going to work for long periods, but as I said I've had Dells Acers MSI and Asus and only the Acers degenerated quickly (which was still 2 years).

Lucas Kauffman
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