[ltp] Thinkpad battery exhausted in less than a year?

Eben King linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:41:29 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Patrick Huber wrote:

> Don't forget to consider this too:
> 10.8V * 4Ah = 43.2Wh
> 14.4V * 1.7Ah = 24.48Wh
> 
> So the 14V battery will only give half as much battery-time as the 10V battery 
> would.

Doesn't that depend on how the conversion from (the voltage the battery 
supplies) to (the voltage the computer uses) is done, or is there only one 
way?  Half as much energy I can see.

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