Acer :: 1810TZ Charger Rate Results

Done some testing of chargers and charge rates. My non scientific findings as follows.

Battery start capacity 91.3%.

After 19 minute charge time -

Using 70watt charger :

Off 98%
On low power 98%
On full power 97%

Using 30watt charger :

Off 98%
On low power 97.5%
On full power 94.5%

To conclude the larger charger mostly maintains charge rate regardless of load on the computer.

The standard 30w charger maintains its charge rate on normal use, yet go to 100% CPU and charge rate drops by around 50%. It possible this could be far worse with an external USB HDD attached, 3G dongle and so on.

It seems that the computer can consume a little more than the 30w charger can output, but only of use in extreme circumstances.

Even with a larger charger the charge rate may drop if you had the computer consuming excessive levels of power, not sure what point this may occur.

Additionally batterymon charge rate indicator did not support the real world test.