|
|
| (28 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) |
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| − | ThinkPad laptops only charges/discharge one battery at a time. If you have two batteries present (a system battery and an [[UltraBay]] battery), the laptop will completely deplete the UltraBay battery before using the main battery.
| + | #REDIRECT [[How to use Ultrabay batteries]] |
| − | | |
| − | ===Battery hot-swapping===
| |
| − | Switching between the batteries is instant, so if you pull the UltraBay battery from the bay when it is being discharged, the system will instantly switch to the main battery. You can therefore use the UltraBay battery to hot-swap the system battery (i.e., replace it without the need to reboot, hibernate or use an external power adapter).
| |
| − | | |
| − | ===Charging and discharging===
| |
| − | When charging, the system will completely charge the main battery before it starts on the UltraBay battery. When discharging, the system will completely discharge the UltraBay battery before it discharges the main battery. This greatly reduces the lifetime of the Ultrabay battery, and also reduces its usefulness for enabling hot-swapping of the system battery. There are two ways to prevent this:
| |
| − | | |
| − | * Keep an eye on the charge in the UltraBay battery and physically remove it from the bay when it gets too low.
| |
| − | * Use the [[SMAPI support for Linux#Using_the_tp_smapi_module|tp_smapi]] module to control which battery is charged (<tt>inhibit_charge</tt> on the other battery) or discharged (<tt>force_discharge</tt>). This only works on some ThinkPad models - see the [[SMAPI support for Linux#Model-specific_status|model-specific status]].
| |
