Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:18:53 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem
From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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?!
Well... I still have the original battery in my 50CT that I bought in Jan. '98, and >it's< still working fine. Mainly because 95% of the time I've used it, it's on a power adapter, and always kept plugged in.
This used 100CT I've had for less than a year has also seen the same type of use. I thought I'd see
some radical drop in time the battery would power the system before it died. It seems that it's been powering the system for a couple of hours or more before it wouldn't power the system anymore.
Can someone tell me which course is the cheaper way to go, rebuilding it from cells from a 50/70 battery, or buying new cells to replace the old ones if I rebuild the battery? Then of course there's Johns mega-battery solution I guess, but I'd really prefer not to spend that kind of money right now.
Thanks,
Matt
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