[ltp] Re: R40 Battery life

Paul Kaplan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:08:11 -0500


What did you do when you got the battery?  Charge to completion overnight with 
the machine off?  Did you then cycle it?  How many times?
Paul
On Monday 28 February 2005 05:57 pm, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Brad Langhorst [05-02-28 17:42 -0500]:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:37 +1000, shorty wrote:
> > > Just out of interest, my battery design capacity says 57600mWh but last
> > > full capacity is 37480mWh. Does this mean battery isnt accepting full
> > > charge?
>
> It normally just means the battery is wearing out, as they do. I've just
> got a new battery which has a 'last full' capacity 20 times more than the
> old one.
>
> Wookey
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