Re: Notebook Battery
M-L wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all:
>> --} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the
>> --} way out? I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery
>> --} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months now, and stayed
>> --} pretty stable. Unless some of the cells just died.
>> --}
>> --} Thanks
>
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> I have always found that to get the most out of the life of a laptop battery,
> you have to run it right out, something that, I think, the latest windows
> won't allow, till it just drops right out. This way there is no memory built
> up, but when the battery finally does (*) really die. It's dead for ever. As
> well you have to have a good filesystem like ext3 on the lappy, that will
> recover from this kind of crash, and of course, manually save everything for
> the last 3 minutes or so of battery life, and just play a game or something
> till it crashes, with everything else shut down. The battery will then last
> for years, or does in my case. I have to use laptops because we have solar
> power, and have to husband our power and use it frugally.
This applies only to NiMH or NiCd batteries which were used in older
notebooks, as far as I know. A good reference is
Batteries in a Portable World. A handbook on rechargeable batteries for
non-engineers
http://www.buchmann.ca/
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.
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