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- From: poulin@violet.ccit.arizona.edu
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- Subject: Re: Superclock Battery indicator indicates wrong?!?!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.131928.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:19:28 GMT
- References: <103935@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <103935@netnews.upenn.edu>, hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) writes:
- >
- > I am experiencing a really frustrating problem. Superclock, which I
- > couldn't live without, includes a handy battery indicator when it is running
- > on a powerbook.
- >
- > Unfortunately, at least on my duo and my wife's, it indicates wrong.
- > It will rarely get below 3/4's full by the time the battery DA indicates
- > almost empty, and I start getting battery related dialogues.
- >
- > Has anyone else seen this problem? It didn't occur (as far as I can recall)
- > on my 100.
- >
- > BTW I am running superclock v3.9 and a pile of other extensions/cp's.
-
- Josh --
- I believe if you read the docs in the Superclock program (or do they come
- with it when you get the ftp package?), you'll see that the nickel-cadnium
- (sp.) batteries of the PB140 and above do not follow the same drainage curve
- that the PB100 batteries do. As a result, when your battery is dead,
- Superclock shows it to be only half dead. I'm hoping there's a fix for this in
- version 4.0. I believe that the PB100 batteries follow a linear drainage curve
- and the batteries for the PB140 and above follow a log curve....
-
- *shrug*
- Ian Poulin
- poulin@ccit.arizona.edu
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- >
- > Josh Hodas
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Josh Hodas Home Phone: (215) 222-7112
- > 4223 Pine Street School Office Phone: (215) 898-9514
- > Philadelphia, PA 19104 E-Mail Address: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu
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