Laptop battery seems to drain fast! - A515-51G

starrysky1213
starrysky1213 Member Posts: 6 New User
edited August 2023 in 2019 Archives
Hi, I have a Acer Aspire 5 laptop of model A515-51G that was bought two years ago. Initially I had 1TB of HDD on my laptop and installed a 240 GB of M.2 2280 SSD last week. Everything seems fine accept the laptop battery seems to drain faster than it is. Drain rate at 1% per 2-3 minutes. Is it this consider normal? 

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  • starrysky1213
    starrysky1213 Member Posts: 6 New User
    A515-51G-55A5
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,246 Trailblazer
    Can you time a drain from full charge to power off? It might just be incorrect stats...
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  • starrysky1213
    starrysky1213 Member Posts: 6 New User
    Hi, I didn't time it but just checked the battery report generated in windows 10 and it shows the drainage is 26% in an hour and 22 minutes. Would that be normal?
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,246 Trailblazer
    Really often the reports that Windows generates are really, really off. If you typically run with ether a full charge and only partially discharge, or run on low battery and only charge part way the stats will get off. That's why you give the full charge/discharge cycle a try. It's a b it of a pain to try and watch for it to shutdown when the battery finally gets low enough, but often you'll find numbers like you are reporting for the first 25% yet it'll take 8 or 10 hours to go all the way.
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