At 17:51 2002-09-20, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Friday 20 September 2002 03:29 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > [Although laptop-related, it is not debian-specific. But you're a > > helpful lot, aren't you? :-) ] > > > > I'm suspecting that the batteries in my laptop are getting old - or that > > something is buggy in hardware / bios. > > > >Greetings Jorgensen: > >The batteries could be both getting old, and also needing a complete cycling >to reset the values. In my bios, I have a special *mode* that completely >discharges the batteries, then charges them completely and *learns* the >cycle, then repeats the procedure. Yet as batteries age, they will give less >service life. [major snip]
Hi all! Just a bit curious. What happens when Li-ion batteries age? They have no such "memory" as the older NiCad batteries. Perhaps it will work with a recondition procedure, but with Li-ion, I am a bit sceptical. The discharge curve seems ok, since it will drop faster as the battery looses charge, but maybe the time is a bit short. With no (or little) energy saving options, the battery probably will last no more than an hour and a half at anyway. The charge curve is odd I must confess, but some of that behaviour probably originates from the measurment of the battery power. There could rather be a problem there. How old is the battery? How many recharges has it been through? //Ivar - ****************************************************************** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Ume�, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************ http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
