laptop battery

[Raymond House]

Hey Cranky, thanks a lot I'll look at that,I wonder how you found that,I
have been looking all over and was getting nowhere.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:25 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I found this in the User guide for that model laptop (page 44):
>
> For information on connecting to AC power, refer to the Setup Instructions
> poster provided in the
> computer box.
> *The computer does not use battery power when the computer is connected to
> AC external power with*
> *an approved AC adapter or an optional docking/expansion device*.
>
> For your reference, you can see the guide at
> http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03837811.pdf (pdf file)
>
>
> On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 2:20:15 PM Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andy, I'm using an HP pavilion model 15-n041ca.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Andy Boersma <Andy at boersma.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Most laptops will run without a battery, but some of the newer Intel
>>> designed/build motherboards in them the CPU is cycled down.
>>>
>>> We did some test on a 2011 MacBookPro and a 2014 Dell Precision Laptop,
>>> both CPUs slowed 40%
>>> A Dell Latitude just continued at the same speed.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:53 PM, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect not as some of the charging circuits may need to have a 'load'
>>> be it ever so small but at least there.  The battery also serves as a large
>>> capacitor filling in during sudden large current draws such as drive spinup
>>> etc...
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the input on this subject,I guess what I'm really
>>>> looking for is can I run the laptop on the power supply only? without the
>>>> battery.
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