DIY samsung laptop battery repair

In detail: do-it-yourself repair of a samsung laptop battery from a real wizard for the site my.housecope.com.

Modern man is becoming more and more mobile in all spheres of life. And if quite recently stationary computers were in vogue, now laptops are firmly in use. With their help, you can carry with you all your documents, contacts, programs on business trips or on vacation. Also, with a laptop, you always have multimedia entertainment and games at your fingertips. You can take your laptop with you on the plane and watch your favorite movies during the flight. But all this is possible only if the laptop has a working battery. When a laptop battery fails, it becomes a desktop tethered to a power outlet. If the battery is out of order, you can buy a new one. But a situation may arise when the batteries for your laptop model have ceased to be produced due to its obsolescence. Then you can start repairing the battery. Today we are going to talk about how to repair a laptop battery.

Modern laptop models are equipped with lithium batteries. The service life of this type of battery is 400-500 charge-discharge cycles. After that, the battery loses more than half of its original capacity and works in autonomous mode for less than an hour. In terms of time, this can be an interval from 1 to 4 years, depending on the intensity of use. For more information on lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries, follow the links provided.

  • wear of battery cells. Or the failure of individual cans. It is the individual lithium batteries (cans) in the battery. In this case, the controller remains in working order, and the repair is reduced to replacing the cans, also called "repackaging" the battery;
  • deep discharge of battery cells. In this case, the problem is that the controller is blocking the charging of the cans. Battery repair in this case can be reduced to balancing the entire assembly using a special charger or charging each element separately;
  • failure of the controller or its individual elements. The controller is a printed circuit board. If it breaks down (for example, some elements burn out), the repair is reduced to replacing it.
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Laptop battery inside

We advise you to additionally read the material on how to perform a laptop battery test.
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To repair a laptop battery, you may need the following:

  • Knife, scalpel, screwdriver and other tools for opening the battery case;
  • Soldering iron, soldering acid, tin;
  • Multimeter;
  • Multifunctional charger (balancer). Example, iMAX B6;
  • New lithium battery cells, glue, electrical tape.