Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:04:58 +0100 From: "Steven Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Charging problem and dead batteries
Hi all. I too was wondering if any one out there knows a UK company, either selling the battery packs or just compatible battery cells so that I could replace the one in the standard lib battery unit. -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2003 19:49 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem 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? 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