[ltp] One battery or two?

Florian Manschwetus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:13:09 +0200


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Tino Keitel schrieb:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 20:39:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> And, above all, USE your battery when you want to.  There are ways to use it
>> without damaging it for no reason, but a battery exists to be used.
> 
> I got the impression that the remaining lifetime of the battery is
> shortened with every charge cycle. So I do use my battery only when it
> is really required. And when I use it, I try to use it in a way that
> implies at least charge cycles as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> Tino
Watch it for a longer period some times it gets some running time back.
Furthermore the TP batteries are a kind of oversized so the 100% you see
are in real 5%-95% or so, (check capacity on first use of a brand new
thinkpad).
I used my bat when ever I think to do so and I never remove it and yes,
I stress my TP a lot, 3D games and compiling (gentoo). After over 2
years now my T60 still runs more than 3 hours (depending of use up to
3,5 hour) on a full charged battery (4h are the designed running time),
so don't stress about your cells at the end of your main warranty you'll
beet nearly all comparable new non TP Laptops.

Regards,
Florian

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