Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:46:50 -0400 From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem
The battery simply reaches its end of life. There is no warning or slow dieing. It's quick and sudden death. I know it because I'm on my third battery now. They average about a year and half depends on usage. If you want longer living battery, keep it on AC power all the time! Li-ion batteries only have 500 to 1000 recharge cycles. My current battery has already beat all the odds and in its third year now (granted I don't use the lib that often and it's always on AC). It's going to be dead anytime. Don't know if there still is company out there selling Lib battery packs?! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:06:01 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem > > I'm having problems charging the battery on my 100CT too Raymond. I was > about to post a question about it when I found your note. I've checked the > service manual, aksed Iris, and search the Lib list archives, but can't find > an answer. > > My 100 won't power on from the battery which sees to be dead, thought it had > been powering the system fine the other day. It does boot with the AC > adapter connected. But for some reason the LED for the battery suddenly > started blinking twice quickly, staying on for a few seconds, then blinking > twice again, and continuing that way. This pattern persists wither or not > the system is booted. > > Unless there's a simple solution, I'm afraid either either the battery or > charging circuit has gone bad. I'm wondering if this might be connected to > having O/Ced the system to 266, and all of the WinXP crashes the system has > been subjected to. > > Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated. > > Matt > > > >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Hi all! > > > > > >Looks like my trusty L100 has decided that it doesn't want to play nice > >anymore :-( > > > >I plug the power supply and battery in and, if the laptop is turned on, the > >charging light comes on and the power icon shows charging but the battery > >never makes it beyond about 58%. Unplug external power and the battery > >starts discharging. I get about 1h20m or so out of it which is about right > >for a half charge given the age of the battery. > > > >However, things get weirder when the laptop is turned off. With the laptop > >plugged in, initially the power light goes green and the battery light goes > >orange (as normal). However, after a while the battery light turns off > >altogether (it SHOULD go green when the battery is charged) ... If I take > >the battery pack out and plug it back in again, the orange charge light > >comes back on for a while before going out altogether again. > > > >All this started quite suddenly ... it was all working OK then I ran the > >battery all the way down on a flight from Rome to Tokyo (on an Alitalia 767 > >of all things ... don't get me started ...). These problems started the > >next time I plugged it in (actually thats not quite true, the first time I > >plugged it in, instead of the battery light coming on, the power light > >flashed orange indicating a power problem) ... > > > >Anyone else seen such symptoms or have any ideas? > > > > > >*sigh* I wish I found out this thing was having problems before I left > >Tokyo (the next time I plugged it in after the flight was in Australia) ... > >I could have gotten a nice replacement when I went to Akihabara! > > > > > >- Raymond > > > >P.S. Yes, I'm back! Hopefully I'll be a little more active on the list than > >I have been for the past few months! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
