EZbook Pro battery is smaller than it should be? 36480mWh instead of 48000mWh

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I got my Ezbook Pro 3 yesterday, and firstly charged it for about 2-3 hours, at which point the LED on the laptop turned from red to green.

However, today, after using and draining battery to about 10%, I charged it a full 9 hours and the LED is still red. The laptop isn’t hot at all.

I’m SURE I wasn’t imagining the green LED yesterday, I know I saw it.

I just unplugged and turned on the laptop, and it was only at 40%! wtf? It’s been charging almost 9 hours!

Addtionally, both HWinfo and Batterybar report the designed capacity of the battery as 36480 mWh!?! Instead of the proper 48000 mWh

 

What the heck?!

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[Sx C]

download batterybar to monitor the charge rate, best case scenario you just have a wonky charger.

If it is charging properly then download hwinfo(or any battery program) to monitor the voltage.

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Sx C wrote:

download batterybar to monitor the charge rate, best case scenario you just have a wonky charger. If it is charging properly then download hwinfo(or any battery program) to monitor the voltage.

 

It gets worse, see the updated OP

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@chupa any thoughts about this? It seems very weird… Could they have actually put a smaller battery in my laptop?

[Giovanni]

Try to make a full charge/discharge cycle

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[Sx C]

36Wh is actually the real capacity, probably still a little over reported.

going by your full runtime estimate there does not appear to have a problem with the battery. you probably just have a really bad charger, it should charge at 10000-15000mWh when your battery is less than 50%.

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Sx C wrote:

36Wh is actually the real capacity, probably still a little over reported. going by your full runtime estimate there does not appear to have a problem with the battery. you probably just have a really bad charger, it should charge at 10000-15000mWh when your battery is less than 50%.

 

If that’s the real capacity, how come @sipart and @Norg posted in this other thread (https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/battery-life-2/page/2/) showing that it should be 48000 mWh?

 

If it’s just the charger that is charing slowly, that’s great news – I just need a new charger. But my main concern now is that the battery is actually smaller than it should be.

To update you, I did manage to charge it fully without any issues today – the LED even went green at full charge – and it charged up in normal time, so I have no idea why it was stuck on 40% yesterday.

 

But more imporantly….the battery size! Could they have actually put a smaller battery in my unit?

[Chupa]

13″ models have smaller battery than 14″ models

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