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- From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Subject: Re: Dead PowerBook Battery
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.194242.8960@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <19141@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:42:42 GMT
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- In article <19141@mindlink.bc.ca> Daryl_Spitzer@mindlink.bc.ca (Daryl Spitzer) writes:
- >Without warning, the battery on my PowerBook 170 has gone completely dead.
- >The PowerBook works fine while plugged in, but won't even turn on using the
- >battery. I've tried for many hours to recharge it, but it's still dead.
- >(What's strange is that just before it died, I had managed to coax over three
- >hours of use out of it.)
-
- Never try to use a battery that the PowerBook has declared empty. I know that
- you can get a few extra minutes from an almost dead battery, but there's a
- danger that a cell inside the battery will reverse or go dead. When this
- happens, the only way to charge the battery is to zap the cell that went
- dead or replace it.
-
- It is also possible that there's a problem with your powerbook, but from
- your description, I would bet that you killed the battery.
-
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