Re: battery life
On Don, 2003-03-20 at 11:42, Edward G. Speyer wrote:
>
> http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~egs21/iBook-battery-log.gz
>
> Note how my max_charge has dropped from 3404 to 2874. Should I be alarmed
> or is this just the PMU giving me dodgy statistics? (It does seem odd how
> max_charge only drops when the battery is emptied.)
I do think deep discharge is the worst enemy of these batteries,
unfortunately. I usually do at least one deep discharge a day, and the
battery in the old TiBook lost about half an hour of capacity in less
than a year. Compare that to the good old Pismo, the battery of which
was like new after almost two years of daily deep discharges...
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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