Timeline for Mimicking Laptop Battery Management Software With Smart Switch
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| Jun 10 at 12:16 | comment | added | JW0914 | (Cont'd...) Laptops are electrically engineered w/ the assumption the battery will be there, with electrical engineers knowing a laptop's charger lacks the wattage to fully run the laptop while under load (many laptop chargers are 70 - 95W, with most laptops having a lower wattage, cheaper charger and a higher wattage, more expensive charger, with the latter also charging the laptop faster), so with no battery installed, enough power isn't there while under load and the same thing will occur that occurs in this instance on desktops - the system immediately powers off to protect components. | |
| Jun 10 at 12:05 | comment | added | JW0914 | It's a bad idea to run a laptop w/o a battery since this isn't how they're designed - it will work, but downsides exist, such as what is mentioned since most chargers don't supply the actual wattage a laptop fully requires when under load (for example, I have an Alienware 18 and all Alienwares have two chargers that can be used, a 220W/180W or 330W/240W, and 220W is not enough to run the laptop under load with both discrete GPUs active without relying on the battery at times), as well as system instability and data loss if the DC jack comes slightly unplugged, causing a dirty power off. | |
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| S Feb 6, 2022 at 6:43 | history | answered | Jason Vorpahl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |