Battery wear on new Asus laptop

[Shan93]

Hi there!

So I recently purchased a new Asus Laptop, model number N550JK.

It's an incredible laptop, the display is great, the power, the speed, the touchpad and the looks. However when I bought the laptop, I put in my own SSD and reinstalled windows 8.1. When I did that, I also installed the Paid version of BatteryBar Pro which is good for estimating battery usage.

Anyhow, I noticed, right away, that the wear was at around 2% on the first day, purchased on friday evening (from posting this, it is 10PM monday night. The next day the battery wear was around 4.2% and the following morning atound 5%. So I decided to do recalibrate, run the battery down to 0% and then change back to 100%. When I did that, the wear went from 5% to 4.2%, so not great.

Today, I spent all day at UNI, came home, plugged laptop in as it was almost dead. It is now showing 6.1% wear.

Is this normal? I had a HP laptop (to which I returned and got this due to many, many issues) and it showed 0% wear over a month. This has 6.1% (fluctuating though) over the period of 3 days.

Am I just paranoid? Or is the battery really faulty and I should call to get a replacement.

Is there anyway I can test it myself? Would removing the battery drivers help? Or anything else I can try.

Cheers!

 

[iceblitzed]

try using this program called hwmonitor : http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.25.zip .
It will show you the battery wear level. Maybe Batterybar pro might be displaying something incorrectly.

 

[Shan93]

http://i.imgur.com/5vMFJZC.png

I've uploaded a screenshot of HWMonitor to imgur.

It displays exactly what BatterBar pro shows me.

 

[velo3100]

That is quite high in my opinion. Are you charging the laptop to 100 and then draining it to 10%?

 

[Shan93]

Why would I discharge to 10%? I haven't heard anything about that or any advantage with doing that. I simply plug my laptop I'm where I can, like I've done with my other laptops previously.

 

[velo3100]

I asked that as it wears your laptop down a lot faster if you leave it plugged in all the time. This will cause your laptop to not be able to hold charge in the futre

 

[Shan93]

Oh I see, yeah I dont leave it plugged in all the time, I charge it until its 100% and remove it. But still, this should not get me 6% wear in less than a week, that's ridiculous.

So does no one know what I can do about the battery wear?

 

[velo3100]

I would get that replaced as it is most likely faulty but just to make sure what do you do with your laptop? It could be that you are overstressing it somehow.

 

[Shan93]

Battery wear is now showing 6.6%, could it be a faulty then?

And nothing resource intensive. I play no games, the battery profile used is always power saving, with 50% CPU the max. Only use it for uni, for word documents, lecture slides, occasional videos and general internet browsing.

 

[velo3100]

I would still say that it is a bit much for only 3 days of light use. Either the battery is not very good which means you will have to replace it after a year or it is faulty for some reason.