Powertop is a must. Please install powertop (extras-devel, sadly) Run powertop with locked screen and post output, much more useful than batteryGraph /batteryeye. These tools run and monitor all the time and are bad for your battery, too. Only use them when you really need a nice graph.

Also, I am not sure if we can blame testing. I am on thumb (is basically testing) and I dont have problems. You might want to open a new thread