Conserve battery if notebook connect most of time

[beetnick66]

Hello forum
I have my notebook HP ZBook 17 G3 i7-6820HQ most of the time on AC power and from experience I know that this damages the battery. With the previous ProBook I could take the battery out and only plug it in when I went out.

With the HP ZBook 17 G3 i7-6820HQ this is not very feasible and I wonder if there is a circuit that interrupts the battery when it is plugged in?

Or would it make sense to install a small switch with which I could deactivate the battery to save it?

Thanks for your answers
Beat

[TzortzisG]

 Hey beetnick66!

HP has already provided a solution to this problem (for business laptops that have internal batteries) with the 2018 "battery manager" BIOS level settings. Read these two official HP documents and you'll see what I mean:

HP Introduces Battery Health Manager 02-Nov-2018 

Using HP Battery Health Manager 

For your laptop, and according to the TABLE in the first document, you have to have (at least) BIOS VERSION: 01.40 May 14, 2019.

HP ZBook 17 G3 Mobile Workstation Drivers page 

BIOS 1.40 update softpaq direct link      BIOS update 1.40 info  

Post back if you need more help!