laptop battery

[CrankyOldBugger]

Most hardware vendors are getting pretty good now for putting manuals
online, usually posting them in the Support section of their websites.

Just keep in mind that the manual is written for Windows users, and may
contain instructions that only work in Windows.


On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 2:29:33 PM Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Cranky, thanks a lot I'll look at that,I wonder how you found that,I
> have been looking all over and was getting nowhere.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:25 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I found this in the User guide for that model laptop (page 44):
>>
>> For information on connecting to AC power, refer to the Setup
>> Instructions poster provided in the
>> computer box.
>> *The computer does not use battery power when the computer is connected
>> to AC external power with*
>> *an approved AC adapter or an optional docking/expansion device*.
>>
>> For your reference, you can see the guide at
>> http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03837811.pdf (pdf file)
>>
>>
>> On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 2:20:15 PM Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andy, I'm using an HP pavilion model 15-n041ca.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Andy Boersma <Andy at boersma.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most laptops will run without a battery, but some of the newer Intel
>>>> designed/build motherboards in them the CPU is cycled down.
>>>>
>>>> We did some test on a 2011 MacBookPro and a 2014 Dell Precision Laptop,
>>>> both CPUs slowed 40%
>>>> A Dell Latitude just continued at the same speed.
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:53 PM, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I suspect not as some of the charging circuits may need to have a
>>>> 'load' be it ever so small but at least there.  The battery also serves as
>>>> a large capacitor filling in during sudden large current draws such as
>>>> drive spinup etc...
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for all the input on this subject,I guess what I'm really
>>>>> looking for is can I run the laptop on the power supply only? without the
>>>>> battery.
>>>>>
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