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

Heiko Rosemann linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:55:19 +0100


J=FCrgen,

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:14:57 +0100, Juergen Stuber <juergen@jstuber.net> wr=
ote:
> Hi Heiko,
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> Heiko Rosemann <heiko.rosemann@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Theoretically, Lion-batteries should be stored at about 40% charge -
> > frozen. That would keep them from getting old...
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> I don't think it should be frozen, just cool.

Yeah, sorry, as Theodore quoted, they should _not_ freeze - but still
be kept as cool as possible.

> > Of course you don't want to put your laptop in the fridge :-)
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> No, but I do put my second battery in the fridge.

No space in there :-/

> > What I find really amazing is the sort of external battery I already
> > mentioned in a different thread - gives me 7.5hrs+internal, at a price
> > which is lower than the IBM original one. (I'll have to take a few
> > photos and upload them somewhere) Only "quality" is not as good - the
> > laptop thinks it is on AC, so no power-conserving is done, and the
> > remaining capacity indicator is not as exact as the intelligent
> > batteries' one - it said 75-100% for about three hours, 50-75% for
> > another three hours and then went down rapidly.
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> Where do you get those from Germany?

eBay 5134752269.

HTH, Heiko