[ltp] [T43] IBM Battery Li-Ion for UltraBay 2000

[Michael Olbrich]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:04:41AM +0200, Marcel Selhorst wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone the Li-Ion battery for UltraBay 2000 with a T43 and can tell me the actual
> amount of mWH? The only values I could find was that it is 8 cell and has 10.8 V.

# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info
present:                 yes
design capacity:         38880 mWh
last full capacity:      35750 mWh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          10800 mV
design capacity warning: 1787 mWh
design capacity low:     200 mWh
capacity granularity 1:  1 mWh
capacity granularity 2:  1 mWh
model number:            IBM-02K6817
serial number:             834
battery type:            LION
OEM info:                SANYO

> How large is the capacity difference between the Li-Ion and the Li-Polymer battery?
> And is there a way under Linux to "force" the notebook to use the main battery first
> before touching the Ultrabay battery (so that I'm able to exchange the main battery
> without powering off?)

Nothing I know of short of removing the utrabay battery physically.

michael