stevemilwa

oh ok, maybe theres more to what my friends have told me. According to them, their battery died because they left it in all the time, but theres more to it proberly. maybe ill look into making a piece of software or something. Just had one of thoes ureka moments whilst watching dragons den.

Hello, an idea struck me the other day when i was using my laptop. Ive noticed that with many people, if the battery is left in whilst the power plug is in (which is how allot of people tend to leave their laptops) the battery will reach 100% and then the amount of power recharge cycles will increase from that point onwards. so for instance, it will use the battery down to 95% and then recharge again. A li-ion battery only has a certain amount of recharge cycles. This always reduces maximum battery life. If it is constantly left in when the user is at home, the battery life will decrease and ever make the battery un unusable. If i developed a add on in which the power plug REPLACEs into before the laptop, the this device can communicate its status of either charging or not, either wirelessly or wired to a device that cuts off power to the battery. In a common laptop battery there are about 9 slots in which 9 copper plugs go onto. Is there a material which could be placed over the copper plugs, which could switch conductivity to allow current to pass through and to not allow current to pass through. The material could be switched between conductive and non-conductive electrically, much like a transistor. Is a material like this available? What do you think of the general concept?