SW5-012-11SK battery capacity lower than advertised?

v1nsai
v1nsai Member Posts: 5 New User
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First of all, I just want to say I'm extremely happy with my Acer Aspire Switch 10  SW5-012-11SK.

 

On the specs on the website, the battery capacity is listed as 5700 mah.  However, a similar model with only a slightly larger battery, 5910 mah, is rated for 8 hours.  Yet I'm lucky if I can get 4 hours of battery.

 

I ran "powercfg.exe /energy" and under battery information, my battery capacity is rated at 21660.  There are no units though, so I'm not sure how this compares.

 

I'm very happy with this product overall, but the battery is not lasting nearly as long as I was expecting.  I'm still within warranty, so before I go bothering Acer I wanted to make sure that this is normal and see if the community knows what might be going on.  I'm keeping my brightness low, and bluetooth off and really only using it for word processing and web browsing for research, so no flash junk or anything that might wipe out CPU.

 

Thanks for any help

Answers

  • Marcuus
    Marcuus Member Posts: 19

    Tinkerer

    hm. about battery laptop issue.

    I've tried to find how i can save and extend my battery life on my laptop but been searching for years and has not found a good solution until this week !!!

     

    If you want to have more then 4 hours battery on your Acer Asper Switch 10 as mine, then the magic word is: Settings on PowerOptions, belive me it's all there, of course there is alot of settings but try to change and fix and you will see a huge improvement in BatteryLife.

     

    As i said my battery was always 4 hours, now with some changes in the Power-Options my battery last longer then 6 hours, which i am very happy with it Smiley Happy

     

    So good luck, and let us know if you could do something about it.

     

  • v1nsai
    v1nsai Member Posts: 5 New User

    Hey Marcus, thanks for the reply.  Not sure what you're talking about though.  If you mean the Power Options in Control Panel, I've been all up and down that and I've got it set to save as much energy as possible.

  • Marcuus
    Marcuus Member Posts: 19

    Tinkerer

    Hi.

     

    Yes i do mean Power Saver Options in Control Panel, because that made my laptop run from 4 hours to 6 hours battery life BUT it's not just by clicking on Power Saving Mode but you have to configure inside the PowerOptions *Settings to extend your battery life, i do hope you understand ?

     

    B.t.w when you had Balance recommend and now you have on Power Saving do you notice any changes in the battery life time ?

     

     

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