on 10/12/00 2:53 PM, Eric L. Strobel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 10/12/00 1:42 PM, Marc Sira at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> Then I used an app called "Battery Amnesia" which drains
>>> the battery even farther than Apple's reconditioning app.
>>
>> It's worth noting that Battery Amnesia drains a battery *less* completely
>> than Apple's Battery Recondition. It does go farther than the normal Power
>> Manager safety-sleep, however, which may be what you're thinking of.
>> Battery Recondition actually hooks into the Power Manager and drains the
>> battery while still keeping the Duo alive from AC power, which is why it
>> needs the Duo plugged in. It basically goes as far as you can without
>> damaging a NiMH battery by 100% discharging it.
>>
>> That different is also why only certain versions of Battery Recondition
>> work with certain Duos. For the original poster who was unable to run v1.5
>> on a 280c, try using 1.1 or 1.2 (which I believe are respectively on the
>> Battery Tools disk and 7.5.3 distribution from Apple - I can also mail them
>> to someone).
>>
>>
>
> Interesting! Got my Duos off eBay and they had Battery Recondition on it,
> but no docs. I just assumed that the only such an app could work is when
> running by battery power alone. I've never run these apps and then
> immediately taken the battery out to see how deeply it's been discharged
> (not having a multimeter at home).
>
> I guess I'll have to go off to Apple's site to see if there's docs on this.
>
> - Eric.
>
Replying to myself here... I just fired the thing up and sure enough, right
there, buried amongst a bunch of other text in one of the screens of info
before you tell it to recondition, is a mention that the machine should be
hooked up to the power adapter. Never actually read that screen before,
just skimmed it. (Oh, dopey me!)
- Eric.
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