My laptop's bios had an entry for conditioning the battery and calibrating the
bios. First option was to fully discharge the battery via the bios, and then
limit the charge to 80% so that battery life would be extended much more than
if it was charged to 100%. I take it as being the experts recommendation.
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>________________________________
> From: Denis-André Desjardins. <[email protected]>
>To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 9:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] use battery fast
>
>
>Make one of the peripherals a DVD drive and run a movie for as long as it will
>play.
>
>
>On 5 June 2012 18:48, Nick Nobody <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 18:34 -0400, Jeremy wrote:
>>> What can I do to use up my laptop battery as fast as possible? I am
>>> breaking in an external powerpack on a netbook... playing a video is not
>>> fast enough lol.
>>>
>>> I want something that will just keep going until it is dead.
>>>
>>> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null ?
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>
>>Plug in as many useless USB peripherals as you can find!
>>
>>Or if you really want to waste some power solder a low-value resistor to
>>a USB connector (across pins 1 and 4) and plug it in (the lowest you
>>could safely go would be 10 Ohm, >2.5W).
>>
>>Good luck,
>>
>>nick
>>
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