On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:19 PM, tortoise wrote:
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> Brian Troisi wrote:
>> Hello. This problem has been happening frequently for a while:
>> Instead of sleeping when the battery gets critically low, the machine
>> powers off. I usually never had this happen, because it hardly ever
>> got that low, but is this something I should be worried about?
>> Thanks!
>
> If you look on the parts lists, there are two power managing boards in
> the computer itself (I have a pismo), there is one behind the battery
> compartment and one where the ac adapter plugs in (the second one is
> also the audio ports, which are bad on mine which is why I was looking
> at this before) -- the first one knows the battery and it could be at
> fault here. If you still have the old battery you could try that if it
> has even a little power left to test...( I just recycled mine today
> but it did have 10minutes live and a few hours sleep left in it).
>
> I also have a fairly new battery, I did notice once recently it went
> from maybe 40% to 0 in second after waking. I had had it in sleep for
> maybe 4 or 5 days, and there were a bunch of apps going (maintaining
> the RAM takes power). Anyway I nearly never run it all the way down
> intentionally as I don't know how long till I plug it in for certain,
> or when I can find a stopping point either (I try at stop around 10%
> minimum).
>
> Jeremy Keezer did also write a battery monitor and health meter for
> osX BTW.
>
> Anyway there's my experience.
Thanks for the info!
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