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- From: grega@daphni.hq.verdix.com (Greg Alonso)
- Subject: Re: PB100 battery giving 15 min operation
- In-Reply-To: johnwl@kean.ucs.mun.ca's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:29:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <GREGA.92Dec15131710@daphni.hq.verdix.com>
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- Organization: Verdix Corp., Herndon, VA
- References: <1992Dec13.125937.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:17:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.125937.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> johnwl@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
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- I have a PB100 which will be one year old in January. Recently, the
- battery has been giving me less and less operating time (as little as 15
- minutes after a night's charging !). I wonder if anyone has experienced this
- same problem and whether it indicates that I need a new battery (anyone know
- a third party source ?), or the connection between the charger plug and PB
- (which seems pretty loose to me) needs to be repaired under Applecare ?
- Any advice appreciated !
- System: PB100 with 4 MB RAM and 20MB drive set to sleep after 2 minutes
- and screen dimmed down low.
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- I had this problem.
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- What I would do. If you can get Edison1.0 from sumex, load it to watch
- what kind of voltage the battery is running at. It should charge at
- >6.75volts, when uplugged it should be around 6.2 volds. If you can't
- get Edison use a volt meter on the plug and the battery itself (the
- digital ones are best since it is hard to read .01 volt differences).
- if the voltage reads properly and then just plummets in <15 minustes
- then it is probably a bad battery. Call apple and have them
- authorize a new battery pickup at some dealer.
-
- or
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- send it to apple. If you send it back enough you end up getting free
- prizes.
-
- grega
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