Re: Re[2]: ThinkPad Battery Question

[Rob Huber <rhuber@interactive.visa.com>]

Is this for any TP/battery combination? I'm specifically interested in the
TP701/NiMH combination.

TIA

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 emr@teamquest.com wrote:

> Yes. It's the Fuel Guage program in the ThinkPad (Group). It will discharge the 
> battery. Like you said, it needs to be done periodically, usually when you 
> notice battery life dimishing. You can also do it from the command line using 
> PS2 DISCHARGE.
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> Subject: Re: ThinkPad Battery Question
> Author:  Bill Berry <w-berry@nwu.edu> at Gateway
> Date:    10/24/96 1:33 PM
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> I used to have a PowerBook 5300 (yeah, yeah I know...), and with PowerBooks 
> you can reset the power manager, or battery manager, or whatever, and use a 
> utility that drains the battery completely and recharges it. This keeps the 
> battery from wearing out prematurely from the constant charging.
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> Is there anything similar for the ThinkPad? Does IBM have any advice about 
> battery usage and maintenance?
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> >At 11:49 AM 10/23/96 -0700, P.van Schijndel wrote:
> >>I have an IBM 360CSE for about a year and a half.  The battery life has 
> >>gradually declined to the point that after only 70 seconds without any disk 
> >>access (just typing this message, in fact, pulling the plug, and waiting) 
> >>the
> >>ThinkPad beeps to signal low battery power, and 60 seconds after that, the 
> >>ThinkPad beeps its final warning.
> >>
> >>What's wrong?  Is my battery toast?  Is there anything I can do to save it? 
> >
> >        Sounds like it to me.
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> >        I'm surprised its toast after only a year and a half though. 
> >Usually you can expect 2+ years before it gets anything like that--even with 
> >fairly heavy use.
> >
> >        Did you leave it plugged in a lot and did it "cycle" (discharge to 
> >about 90% and then re-charge--constantly)?  My 750 did that--it was a *very* 
> >bad idea to leave it plugged in with the battery inside.  All that constant 
> >cycling got the battery into an early grave.
> >
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> >Randy Whittle  rwhittle@usa.net
> >USC Graduate School of Business    http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle
> >  "If you've been in the game for 30 minutes and still don't know who 
> >is the patsy...*YOU* are the patsy."      - Warren Buffet
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