On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Brian Troisi wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
> Yuck, fortunately that's easy to fix...a pink screen is a failing
> backlight, and changing that out in a Pismo is pretty easy.
Oh really? That's good. It would be nice to easily make the screen
brighter and not pink. Are backlights cheap? I wouldn't have to
replace the LCD right? Thanks!
>
>
>> 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?
>
> I'd keep an eye on it, it may just be a 'hard' error in the power
> management circuitry on the battery and it's off by a few percent.
>
> If it starts getting worse, then there is a slow failure of the new
> battery.
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