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New Battery with 66.60% Wear Level?
I purchased a new battery from a 3rd-party dealer for my XPS 15 laptop. The battery is a genuine Dell and looks exactly like my old one. However, BatteryCare reports the following:
Current battery capacity: 100%
Designed Capacity: 57720 mWh
Total Capacity: 19281 mWh
Current Capacity: 19281 mWh
Charge/discharge rate: 0 W
Tension (Voltage): 12755mV
Wear Level: 66.60 %
... and the Dell battery meter program says that the battery is at "the end of its usable life"....
Is the battery just mis-reporting it's status, or did I buy a dud?
ejn63
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December 8th, 2012 18:00
Ask the seller. If the battery is more than 6 months old, it could conceivably have 1/3 or more of its life behind it before you even start using it.
gilbii
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December 8th, 2012 18:00
Thanks ejn63, looks like the manufacture date on the battery is 2011.01, almost two years old.
laptop2013
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March 21st, 2013 10:00
I just purchased a replacement battery for a 1458 studio laptop, a 9 cell from Dell. Arrived in the mail and the manufacture date on the battery says Oct. 2008. Is this out of the ordinary?