Battery Health Manager

[njnbat]

Is it safe to keep HP X360 s102tu connected to power cable full time.  I found there is a bios setting called battery health manager that would allow HP machines battery charging mode to be customized. However since this is only applicable to business notebooks, how can I handle the battery charging with my device. 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You can pretty much have the notebook connected to A/C power most of the time.

However, I recommend that once a month, you run the notebook on battery power and let the battery run down until you get the low battery warning and then charge it back up again.

The reason I recommend that, is to mitigate possible battery swelling from leaving the notebook connected 100% of the time to A/C power.

You can see that this may occur at the link below, last section.

HP Business Notebook PCs - HP Battery Health Manager | HP® Customer Support

I have seen several forum posts regarding battery swelling on various notebooks.

Here is the link to general battery care practices for HP  notebooks...

HP Notebook PCs - Improving Battery Performance (Windows) | HP® Customer Support

Additional info on battery care...

HP Notebook PCs - Lithium-Ion Batteries | HP® Customer Support