[ltp] battery problem titannotebook.com

Rekik linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:37:53 +0200


David Smith a écrit :

>Im still having a problem with this "new" battery from titannotebook.com,
>anyone else bought batteries from them for their thinkpad?
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>>From day one, every time the battery is cycled the maximum capacity
>diminishes. The strange thing is, if i keep running the machine past the
>0% point, it still runs. As the battery capacity diminishes, the time the
>machine can run while at 0% gets longer. Seems to me the battery cells are
>fine but the microcontroller is out of whack.
>
>I've tried the rundown many times and all it does is further diminish the
>charge capacity. As well I seem to get a strange behavior;
>Run the battery rundown until battery is dead.
>Plug in laptop, while off, and let charge.
>Laptop shows solid green light, but when I turn the machine on it still
>reads 0%. It them begins to charge again if plugged into the charger,
>until full.
>
>So, it seems to only charge up to the dead point, and then it will
>continue the charge once the machine has been turned on. What the heck is
>this?
>
>I have an IBM battery, despite its 180 cycles and 75% original capacity it
>seems to work fine.
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