[ltp] battery questions

Carles Pina i Estany linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:24:55 +0100


Hi,

On Jan/18/2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > I cannot check if it's an official battery from IBM. Any experience
> > using a non-official batteries? Same? Worse? Will explode? :-)
> 
> If there a battery recall by ANY manufacturer, you have to junk it to
> be safe, as there won't be anyone tracking the pack and worried about
> your safety...

good point...

> Also, you're usually lied to when you buy these batteries (capacity,
> technology, properly set-up controller).  I personally prefer to not
> deal with that kind of product and I'd rather it didn't exist.

this is what I was suspecting and I wanted to confirm.

Thanks for your points,

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