Re: Charging 701C when powered off?

["John H. Kim" <jokim@tuna.mit.edu>]

On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Christian N Michalek wrote:

> My 701 battery charges with the computer powered off

Are you sure?  Quoting the manual, page 69:

  To recharge an installed battery pack, the computer must be
  operating on ac power (that is, connected to the ac adapter)
  and in one of the following power states:

  o Power on
  o Suspend mode
  o Safe Suspend mode
  o Standby mode

  Note:  The battery pack cannot recharge while the computer is
  in hibernate mode.

Apparently to save weight, the charger's circuitry works off the laptop's 
power supply or something.  Are you sure your computer didn't just 
auto-suspend?

It isn't really that much trouble as long as you remember to suspend
instead of power off.  I hardly ever use the on/off switch anymore.
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