[ltp] Battery croaked

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Olaf Schultz wrote:
> of fully loaded or not. Opened the pack and direct acces to the cells
> with a labratory power supply and appropiate metering: The cells clearly
> have no problem. It's the electonic inside the pack, which calculate the

Did you graph the cell discharge rate at the typical load for your
thinkpad? 

> power-in and -out flow... These can be reprogrammed.  There are some

For cell gas gauge reset, the only thing you need to do it is to
full-charge, deep-drain until the notebook powers off in firmware, and
full-charge the pack again.  The cells dislike a lot the deep drain, and
don't like the two full-charges that much either, so one should not do
this too often.

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  Henrique Holschuh