On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:03 am, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> From recent experience with a Li-ion battery, it seems what you want to
> make sure you don't do is use your battery up with too many charges.
right. i had a link somewhere, maybe i'll find it again. it said that
Li+ has a maximum number of charges (well, the number is probably
approximate, but it gives one an idea of the upper limit). as you
approach that upper limit, the battery's capacity to store energy
degrades.
i wonder what constitutes a "charge". i use apm -s a lot. but of course
that eats power and if i wake up the computer while pluggedin, then it
starts recharging.
hmmm, maybe i should start using apm -s less. which means upgrading
to Mandrake 9.1 (which is supposed to start up faster, but maybe not
necessary since i'm now pretty happy with my icewm setup), tweak my
startup scripts so that it doesn't all take so long and just reboot every
day. yech. got to think about that.
heat is also supposed to degrade Li+ batteries. i had a major problem
with that on a thinkpad i used to use, and a toshiba. my current
notebook doesn't seem to have that problem though. the battery is far
from any heat producing parts, so when i remove the battery, it doesn't
feel hot.
> - when possible, he does not use the battery (eg: when he's
> connected to a UPS-powered outlet in the office),
hehe. that's what i need, is a UPS. for everywhere i go :). or maybe one
of those universal external laptop batteries. those are probably cheaper
than proprietary batteries. hmmm, now to do some googling when i
get somewhere where the net is faster.
thanks Jijo and Jimmy.
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