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Question

Dell Inspiron Battery

Jun 19, 2013 8:34AM PDT

Hi

My Inspiron battery is coming to the end of its life. I'm happy to just use mains, can I leave the battery to die or remove or battery or must I purchase a replacement.

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Depends on the failure.
Jun 19, 2013 8:44AM PDT

There are too many ways a battery winds down. The worst is if it loses a cell and that cell shorts out. This causes a condition where the battery can be constantly charging and could overtax the motherboard battery circuits. I can't guess if you know the other failures.

Another failure is loss of capacity without the deleterious effect noted above. That battery I don't have any problem with leaving it in.

If the battery just flat out holds no charge and won't charge and doesn't warm up due to charge attempts I might leave it in.

No, no one is forcing you to replace it. But you may have to research all those failures.
Bob

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Battery Capacity Failure
Jun 19, 2013 9:06AM PDT

Thanks Bob.

I think it is just loss of capacity and therefore I think I can leave it in and ignore the Dell battery warnings.

Brian