On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:13:00AM -0400, Charles Pax wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, I have a few Nokia batteries laying around, BL-5c and BL-6c, and > > desktop chargers. They power the Freerunner fine, and seem to charge when > > they're in the FR plugged in. But the Freerunner doesn't know what to do > > with them apart from that, presumably since they lack the Openmoko coulomb > > counter circuit. > > > The coulomb counter circuitry is in the battery? Why isn't this on the board > itself?
because the charging state is a property that is inherent to the battery, not your device. imagine you remove a 50% charged battery and insert a 90% charged battery. if the coulomb counter was on the mainboard, it would still think 50% after you put in the 90% battery. -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
