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- From: dstrout@sun.rest.tasc.com. (Dave Strout)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Superclock Battery indicator indicates wrong?!?!?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 19:59:02 GMT
- Organization: TASC
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- References: <zaphod-080193092719@gregt.winona.msus.edu>
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- In article <zaphod-080193092719@gregt.winona.msus.edu> writes:
- > In article <103935@netnews.upenn.edu>, hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh
- > Hodas) wrote:
- > >
- > >
- > > 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.
- > >
- > It's probably because SuperClock was designed for the batteries in the
- PB
- > 100 through the PB 180, and not the Duos. The duos use a different
- battery
- > technology, and I would bet that SuperClock does not know about it.
- > Best thing to do is turn the battery indicator in SuperClock off, and
- put
- > an alias of the Apple Battery DA in your Startup Items folder, so it is
- on
- > the desktop all of the time.
- >
- >
-
- Or even better, get Edison from ftp.apple.com. It shows you the voltage
- and the time that you have been running on battery. I find this at least
- as useful at Apple's battery. I keep an alias to it in startup. Works on
- my duo 230.
-
- dave.
-
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