[ltp] poll: how is your battery? (9-cell-battery lost about 25% capacity in 10 months)

[David Tansey]

so replacement only worked if the battery had zero capacity left?

On 7/11/05, David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com> wrote:
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> > if you're using ACPI you can simply `cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/*'
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> > design capacity:         71280 mWh
> > last full capacity:      56720 mWh
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>         This is what the battery that came with my T42p reports:
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> design capacity:         71280 mWh
> last full capacity:      66980 mWh
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>         But according to what I've read, you shouldn't run the battery
> down to as close to 0% as possible, and recharge. THAT kills
> batteries.
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>         I had a T23 that I judiciously would charge to full, unplug,
> use on battery until 0%, recharge, etc. The battery itself died
> completely 2 days before the 1-year warrantee on it was up. I called
> IBM and they sent me a new one, but told me that the fastest way to
> kill the battery was to force it through more recharge cycles, just as
> I did.
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> David A. Desrosiers
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