SubscribeWhat’s the wear level of your battery?
It’s not much of a secret for Q1 owners that the battery wear rate of the lithium batteries are horrible. It’s expected that lithium batteries wear down over time due to factors of age and heat. With the Q1, the rate at which they deteriorate is much higher. I don’t know much about battery technology so I don’t know if it’s the circuitry in the Q1 or the batteries itself that causes the problem.
Granted, I use my Q1 all the time. It’s almost always on and, most of the time, plugged into the AC adapter.
I have NHC (Notebook Hardware Control) installed and checked the status of my 3-cell and 6-cell batteries. The 3-cell is a year old but I haven’t been using it much the past 6 months since I bought the 6-cell. The past 6 months, I’ve almost exclusively gone with the 6 cell.
Here’s what the wear levels are at today.
3-Cell:
6-Cell:
As you can see, my battery life sucks at the moment.
The wear level of the 3-cell is at a whopping 57%. At no wear, I could get around 2 1/2 hours of use. Now, it’s less than an hour. One interesting note is the last time I checked the wear level, it was at 50%. So for the last 4-6 months, it added 7% wear level just sitting there doing nothing.
The 6-cell is at 28% already. At no wear, it’s expected to get around 4 hours of use. Now with 28% of the capacity gone, I can expect around 3 hours now.
I’m hoping my next device doesn’t deteriorate its batteries so fast. I’m already thinking of getting another 6-cell battery to replace the already worn out one I’m using. I didn’t expect to continue buying new batteries every 6-months.