Battery

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A110 battery

The battery in the A110 is a Li-Ion 4800mAh device.

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Overview

  • The battery usually lasts about 4:30 up to 5:00 hours, depending on what you're doing. The extremes:
    • Idle: 5:00 hours (ca. 6.3 W power consumption)
      • Tested with min. LCD brightness, wireless off, no USB devices attached, 0% CPU load all the time.
    • Max. load: 3:30 hours (ca. 10.6 W power consumption).
      • Tested with max. LCD brightness, wireless on, bluetooth (USB dongle) on, 100% CPU load all the time.
  • It takes approx. 2:30 hours for fully charging the battery (ca. 31.5 W power consumption), depending on what you're doing while charging the battery.

Power Consumption

Uwe Hermann has tested the power consumption of the A110 laptop.

All tests were done with a Voltcraft Energy Check 3000, with the A110 laptop battery removed.

Overview

  • Laptop off: 0 W
  • Idle: 7.3 W
    • Idle + lowest LCD brightness: 6.3 W
    • Idle + lowest LCD brightness + lid closed: 5.6 W
  • 100% CPU load, highest LCD brightness: 10.6 W
  • A110 with battery attached and being charged: 31.5 W

Details

  • BIOS screen: 6-9 W
  • GRUB screen: 9 W
  • Linux booting: 7-9 W
  • Login prompt: 7.3 W
  • X11 (vesa driver): 7 W

Differences

  • cpufreq-set -g performance/powersave: +/- 0.3 W
  • Full/Low LCD brightness: +/- 0.8 W
  • Wireless on/off: +/- 1.4 W
  • Bluetooth USB dongle on/off: +/- 0.4 W
  • Audio on/off (alsamixer): +/- 0.4 W
    • Higher volume means more power consumption.
  • Closed lid on console or X11 (set max. LCD brightness before): +/- 1.4 W
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