At 17:51 2002-09-20, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 September 2002 03:29 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > [Although laptop-related, it is not debian-specific. But you're a > helpful lot, aren't you? :-) ] > > I'm suspecting that the batteries in my laptop are getting old - or that > something is buggy in hardware / bios. > Greetings Jorgensen: The batteries could be both getting old, and also needing a complete cycling to reset the values. In my bios, I have a special *mode* that completely discharges the batteries, then charges them completely and *learns* the cycle, then repeats the procedure. Yet as batteries age, they will give less service life.
[major snip] Hi all!Just a bit curious. What happens when Li-ion batteries age? They have no such "memory" as the older NiCad batteries. Perhaps it will work with a recondition procedure, but with Li-ion, I am a bit sceptical. The discharge curve seems ok, since it will drop faster as the battery looses charge, but maybe the time is a bit short. With no (or little) energy saving options, the battery probably will last no more than an hour and a half at anyway. The charge curve is odd I must confess, but some of that behaviour probably originates from the measurment of the battery power. There could rather be a problem there.
How old is the battery? How many recharges has it been through? //Ivar - ****************************************************************** Ivar Alm ! Where does Microsoft want to drag you today? ! Umeå, Sweden ! Do you really want to go there? ! octo@acc.umu.se ************************************************http://www.acc.umu.se/~octo