Message-Id: <l03010008b6ec98197c94@DialupEudora>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 00:33:39 -0800
From: Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Duo2400] Re: More On Duo Batteries
At 12:29 AM -0600 4/1/01, Joe Clark wrote:
>I also had someone test the battery that cannot start up the computer, and
>his multimeter showed 12.5 volts in it. This is strange, since one would
>think that if the battery was "dead" it would have no voltage...is there
>such a thing as a battery having charge, but having some other electrical
>problem such that it is unusable to the Duo? That sounds like what's
>going on.
A 'dead' battery can produce a voltage as long as there is no current load.
A digital multimeter will draw so little that the battery will still read
full voltage, but try to spin a hard drive and it will run out of juice
instantly.
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