Battery Trouble

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I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. Randomly my battery charges when I plug it in and then sometimes it goes to AC Power when I want it to charge. Right now, I'm trying to charge it and it's at 30% battery life but it's on AC Power.

Any help can be appreciated.
 
Could also be the charger.

I don't know if it's still accurate, but dell batteries/chargers carried another connection between them, and if you hooked up a non-dell charger the laptop wouldn't charge the battery because it wasn't a "DELL" charger.
 
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Could also be the charger.

I don't know if it's still accurate, but dell batteries/chargers carried another connection between them, and if you hooked up a non-dell charger the laptop wouldn't charge the battery because it wasn't a "DELL" charger.
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My charger is brand new because my old one stopped working. It must be my battery going out.
 
It's probably the charger I'm current helping out a friend in the same situation, can you link to the charge you bought?
 
It doesn't necessarily have to be the battery or the charger, it could be the laptop itself... But the best course of action is to try a new battery, that is if the charger is good, and if that doesn't work then it'll be the laptop itself. The OH's laptop actually had a habit of killing batteries, you'd put a new one in and within a couple of weeks it wouldn't 'see' the battery any more and nor would my laptop.
 
I'll try a new battery. And if that doesn't work, I'll look into getting a new laptop.
 
Power jacks have normally have 2 connections.

A +19v feed and a ground.

Apples magsafe does this on the other hand.
Pin 3 on apples magsafe is the charge control pin.

I had an old dell laptop and i used a belkin charger and it worked fine.

Use a program like Hardware monitor too see the life of the battery.
 

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