Is 8% battery wear level normal after 8 months of use? nitro 5 an515-42

harshupadhyay10

anyone having acer nitro 5 ryzen please check the battery wear level using powercfg or hwmonitor and report here please

Sharanji

harshupadhyay10rahulpareek9250 

As a battery gets older, it loses capacity. If the battery's capacity when new was 4000 mAh, and its current capacity is only 3600 mAh (90% of new), then it has a battery wear level of 10%.

That said, battery wear is mostly caused by deep charge cycles. That is, charging to 100% and discharging to 0%. Shallow cycles (say, charging to 70% and discharging to 30% put almost no wear on the battery.

Newer laptops are programmed not to fully charge nor discharge the battery in order to prevent wear and maintain battery longevity. One of the ways I've seen some devices do this is by "faking out" Windows into thinking the battery has more wear than it really does. So the battery may be 4000 mAh when new, but the battery tells Windows it has 10% wear. This prevents Windows from charging it past 90%, thus preventing a deep cycle.

This is just one of the wear-prevention strategies out there, and I don't know if the Acer Nitro AN515-42 is using it. So it could just be reporting a fake wear level to Windows. OTOH if the original owner let the battery discharge completely and left it that way, it may have self-discharged past 0% enough to damage the battery and the reported wear level may be accurate.

The only true test will be to monitor the wear level over several months of use. If it holds steady between 15%-20%, then it's probably nothing to worry about. If it continues wearing quickly, then the battery may have been damaged by the previous owner. (Measuring battery capacity and wear level is a bit of a black art, as it requires extremely accurate measurements of voltage. Things like discharge rate and temperature can drastically change the results, so a +/- 3% change in wear level day-to-day is not unusual.)

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andylb

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

harshupadhyay10

andylb said:

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

I worry that it will cause more wear as draining battery damages it the most. 

andylb

harshupadhyay10 said:

andylb said:

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

I worry that it will cause more wear as draining battery damages it the most. 

The process I gave you is the Acer official method and is their recommendation not mine, I'd be more worried if you weren't following these good battery disciplines

andylb

here ya go my friend and it does help the battery if the initial conditioning is repeated periodically to recondition it. The magic percentage for recharging is 70%, so after you have carried out the above procedure, recharge when it drops below 70%. If you are gaming you will need to be on AC all the time because you can't run on High Performance on the battery

rahulpareek9250

harshupadhyay10 said:

andylb said:

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

I worry that it will cause more wear as draining battery damages it the most. 

did it helped?

harshupadhyay10

rahulpareek9250 said:

harshupadhyay10 said:

andylb said:

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

I worry that it will cause more wear as draining battery damages it the most. 

did it helped?

no i haven't tried it yet 

rahulpareek9250

harshupadhyay10 said:

rahulpareek9250 said:

harshupadhyay10 said:

andylb said:

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

I worry that it will cause more wear as draining battery damages it the most. 

did it helped?

no i haven't tried it yet 

for me its 10% for less then a year i am trying something new from a forum charging till 70% and recharging when battery reaches 30% how you charge your laptop and how many times a day?

andylb

harshupadhyay10 said:

rahulpareek9250 said:

harshupadhyay10 said:

andylb said:

Restore your battery by using your Notebook until the battery is almost discharged then recharge it, repeat this for a total of 3 times. Also make sure you are plugged into AC when you are not using it, modern Notebook batteries perform better when kept topped up

I worry that it will cause more wear as draining battery damages it the most. 

did it helped?

no i haven't tried it yet 

I would recommend that you try the official ACER method that I posted above before you try anything else

Sharanji

harshupadhyay10rahulpareek9250 

As a battery gets older, it loses capacity. If the battery's capacity when new was 4000 mAh, and its current capacity is only 3600 mAh (90% of new), then it has a battery wear level of 10%.

That said, battery wear is mostly caused by deep charge cycles. That is, charging to 100% and discharging to 0%. Shallow cycles (say, charging to 70% and discharging to 30% put almost no wear on the battery.

Newer laptops are programmed not to fully charge nor discharge the battery in order to prevent wear and maintain battery longevity. One of the ways I've seen some devices do this is by "faking out" Windows into thinking the battery has more wear than it really does. So the battery may be 4000 mAh when new, but the battery tells Windows it has 10% wear. This prevents Windows from charging it past 90%, thus preventing a deep cycle.

This is just one of the wear-prevention strategies out there, and I don't know if the Acer Nitro AN515-42 is using it. So it could just be reporting a fake wear level to Windows. OTOH if the original owner let the battery discharge completely and left it that way, it may have self-discharged past 0% enough to damage the battery and the reported wear level may be accurate.

The only true test will be to monitor the wear level over several months of use. If it holds steady between 15%-20%, then it's probably nothing to worry about. If it continues wearing quickly, then the battery may have been damaged by the previous owner. (Measuring battery capacity and wear level is a bit of a black art, as it requires extremely accurate measurements of voltage. Things like discharge rate and temperature can drastically change the results, so a +/- 3% change in wear level day-to-day is not unusual.)

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