To learn more about how to recycle portable laptop chargers and other batteries, I talked to Joe Day, commercial manager of Midwest and Northeast regions for lithium-ion battery recycler Li-Cycle ...

Whether you implemented the circuit yourself, or took the easy way out and picked up one of the dirt cheap modules available online, the battery management IC is simple to work with and gets the ...

But what if you need to charge a laptop or tablet while you’re out? Many portable chargers don’t have the capacity to handle it, and those that can tend to be bulkier and heavier than you’d ...

To speed up charging, you must put your laptop to sleep or shut it down while charging. This way, the power from the charger is dedicated solely to charging the battery. Without any active ...

If you’ve ever had a laptop charger die, you know that they can be expensive to replace. Many laptops require you to use a ‘genuine’ charger, and refuse to boot when a knock off model is used.

If however, battery calibration wasn’t the issue, go to method 4. Read: How to charge your Windows laptop without an OEM charger. As the device ages, the battery performance will keep dropping.

If your laptop only receives power when the charger is plugged in, this means the battery is unable to charge or can't hold a charge. Shut down the laptop and remove the battery, then wait for a ...

If you use a much lower wattage charger, or power bank, your MacBook battery might not fill up as fast because the laptop battery is being used by your applications. As such we haven’t looked at ...