battery

[paul_h1982]

mmm well, more and more i get the feeling i did not do that perfect buy.
the story:
bought my fs285m last year in september, didn't use it that often, in deed, once or twice for half an hour a week, and even then the power supply was switched in.
well, as usual, i charged my battery to 100% last time and did not use the vaio for 3 or 4 days and as i started the laptop today, the battery-control showed 97%.
is this an usual phenomen or did this happen because of the bad accu of the vaio?

thanks in advance.

[paul_h1982]

ps: run "vaio optimised" as shown on battery-control

[paul_h1982]

maybe anyone can help me also on that:

What's the exact difference between the Sony VGP-BPL2 and the Sony VGP-BPL2C (extra) battery?

I don't see any difference.

thank you

[Thalamus.]

i charged my battery to 100% last time and did not use the vaio for 3 or 4 days and as i started the laptop today, the battery-control showed 97%.

I think this is just down to the power used in starting up your system, I do not think it's anything to be concerned about.

What's the exact difference between the Sony VGP-BPL2 and the Sony VGP-BPL2C (extra) battery?

Neither can I, except that it states the VGP-BPL2C can be used in the VAIO VGN-SZ andVGN-FE Series, but as you have a VGN-FS and can use either model I would go for whichever is the cheaper model.

[carthorian]

Ofcourse there is a margin of error of a few %, so don't worry about it.

[paul_h1982]

hey! thanks for the help.
I am still a bit concerned about the problem, as it gets worse.

P.e.: Yesterday, sunday, loaded the vaio to 100% battery, today, i just got 92 % power (and i plugged in the power-stitch in BEFORE i started the system)

mmm hope it doesn't get worse.

Any ideas? Still no cause to worry about? Is this maybe because i didn't do a 24h battery charge when i bought the system new so it looses power now?

[paul_h1982]

any help please?
thanks in advance.

[carthorian]

Still don't see any reason to panic. Try fully recharging your notebook and see how long it runs on battery mode.

[paul_h1982]

runs about 1 1/2h with wlan on.
seems pretty okay, even if the battery status dumps down.

anyway, bought the bpl2 yesterday and it works fine with it. (FS285m)

a friend of mine said it would be useful if i discharged the accumulator from time to time, but how to do? just let the vaio run on battery mode until it shuts down to standby-mode? or is there anything else i should look at?
thanks in advance!

Paul

[paul_h1982]

any help on this one plzzzzzzzz