On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 08:22 -0400, Stefan Monnier 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. > > Why on earth would you want to do that? > Li-ion/Li-poly has no such thing as "breaking in". You may completely > break it if you really empty it completely (tho usually the circuitry > around it should try and prevent it from happening), and even if you > don't empty it completely, emptying it will shorten its life expectancy > and reduce its capacity. > > > Stefan
That's a very good point. Jeremy, explain yourself :P I assumed he was doing it to calibrate the power management software. By running the battery down to nothing you should get a better estimate of battery capacity in the future. nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
