On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Brian Troisi wrote:
>
>> I don't think it's failing.... I just bought it, and it
>> seems to be fine. I can live with that problem though, I still get 4
>> hours of battery life and up.
>
> New batteries need to be calibrated. charge it all the way up, then
> use it on the battery alone until it shuts down past the sleep
> warning, then charge it all the way back up.
>
> If it still behaves like this after the calibration steps, then the
> battery is likely faulty. (When I got the NewerTech extended life
> battery for my Pismo, the first one I got was bad, OWC exchanged it
> for another and, after calibrating, gave me several hours of battery
> life.
Thanks for the reply. It has been calibrated many times, but still
does it. I don't think it's faulty, because with the screen with full
brightness ( Any lower than highest makes the already dim screen turn
pink) and AirPort on, I get around 3 - 4 hours of battery life. I did
get a battery on eBay, and it was defective. This one is the exchange
one. it's a different model, but is still a new generic Pismo battery.
Oh well, I'm not going to let a loss of 3% bother me much. Do you
think this will only get worse as time goes on?
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