Charging the battery during use

Hello everyone,
I am planning to buy a MNT reform, but I have some basic questions and would be happy to get some answers.

I have read a lot on the forum and in the manual, but nowhere have I found any indication of which power supply is required for operation. Surely it won’t be the case that the battery cells have to be removed and charged?

Sorry for my poor English, but I went to school a long time ago and I rarely needed it.

Welcome to the forum!

Correct, that is not the case. It operates like other laptops: the battery stays in the case and you charge it by attaching a cable to your AC adapter. So far, the Reform has shipped with this 60 W power supply: MeanWell GST60A24-P1J

When I want to charge the batteries of my Reform, I plug in the cable from the power supply and the batteries start charging automatically as they would with a normal laptop.

Please let us know if you have any further questions. :slight_smile:

Thank you, I was not aware of the scope of delivery.

Hi, to add some info: from now on we’ll fulfill MNT Reform orders (ordered from MNT directly, not from Crowd Supply stock) with the 3.0 motherboard which has USB-C PD charging instead of the previous barrel jack. Otherwise the principle is the same, batteries are charged inside the laptop like on any other mainstream laptop.

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Since that makes the MeanWell adapter pointless, does that mean that new classic Reforms will ship without any power adapter?

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