Oh! I see....it was "friend" of your who bought this battery! Suuuure
buddy!
Actually, what ahppened is that the battery is new and in the original
box. However, it has been sitting on a shelf discharged for about 3-4
years. This is not a good thing for a battery to have happen to
it.
Anyway, the Duo 230 doesn't support Apple's Battery Recondition app if I
remember correctly. Therefore, your best hope is to try Jeremy
Kezer's 'Battery Amnesia' which does a similar thing. However,
you might want to try and recondition the battery in a newer Duo
as well.
You can also try charging and completely discarging the
battery a number of times. It might get a little better each
time. Chances are that the battery will never reach its full
potential regardless of what you do to it. When I bought my 230 it came
with a Type 1 battery that was completely dead. THe machien didn't run off
of it for more than 15 seconds if that. I managed to get it out of its
funk to a max of about 30 minutes in the 230, so it is possible.
Bestof luck!
Tom
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Philip
Rogosky wrote:
> The battery in the duo 230 I inherited didn't hold the charge anymore. So a
> friend of mine decided as a present he'd give me a "new" original battery.
> It came in its original box, wrapping & all; NiMH Model# 7782 - BS3104SEC72.
>
> So I put it into the Duo, let it charge 24 hours and then tried the Duo
> (unplugged). Seems it ain't really working too well. The control strip was
> showing a low charge, said 1min30sec left, and sure enough flashed the low
> power warning and then turned off. I restarted with the charging cable in,
> and, again according to the control strip, it loaded to full in a matter of
> minutes. I unplugged the charger, and it seemed to hold the charge fairly
> well - only to lose it again completely and abruptly during an IE3 crash.
>
> Are these normal battery growing pains, or was my friend conned - into a
> "new" yet actually decrepit battery? What to do?
>
> Thanx for hints,
>
> Philip
>
>
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