Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:23:51 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Chemicals in the post .. (USA Question)

At 12:06 AM 10/03/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:56:53 +0000
>From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Chemicals in the post .. (USA Question)
>
>Hi All,
>
>So, I win a USA eBay auction on a HiCap Libby batt for my 50 and get it
>at a good price but they are telling my it will cost 60 USD to ship cos
>it's classed as 'caustic chemicals' or summat? (my Mobility Air / Car
>converter took 3 days for 7.50 USD?)
>
>I think the problem lies with the USPO as DHL, UPS will carry it but
>that's where the high price comes in. I have asked if it could go by
>ship or whatever but not had a reply as yet (I think they are surplus
>stock traders).

Well I got 2 standard battery packs for my L50 sent from the US to me in Australia for 
$11USD by USPS Global Priority (it still took a month to get to me but that was at the 
height of the anthrax scares where the Sydney warehouse got shut down every 2 hours 
because someone found white powder somewhere) ...


>Talking of that .. have we talked about the fact that all this old stock
>seems to have surfaced .. or has it been there all the time and 'we'
>have just surfaced? (I know I joined it the 'battery date lottery' but
>no news of a prize yet?) ;-)

I wouldn't worry about the shelf life of the unused battery ... its more the number of 
cycles that matter, AFAIK LiIon batteries hardly deteriorate in their new state.


>Lasty, what is the 'real' running time on a 50CT with the std batt (no
>extras except the mini port rep) and say with a medium 'hairy light
>bulb"?

I got 1 hour and 40 minutes or so off a new standard battery ... I can't quite 
remember the conditions I did the testing under but its in the archives somewhere ... 
I do recall I had the hairy lightbulb on high and was playing Winamp all the way 
through (so the CPU was actually working).


- Raymond

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