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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!taligent!apple!mumbo.apple.com!zardoz.apple.com!user
  2. From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: powerbook battery lif
  5. Message-ID: <wingo-080992101208@zardoz.apple.com>
  6. Date: 8 Sep 92 17:13:43 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep7.1164.13909@channel1> <laogtlINNab3@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
  8. Sender: news@mumbo.apple.com (The News System)
  9. Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  10. Organization: Apple Computer
  11. Lines: 20
  12.  
  13. In article <laogtlINNab3@nada.cs.utexas.edu>, benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William
  14. Kent Richards) wrote:
  15. > 
  16. > In article <1992Sep7.1164.13909@channel1> "joseph france" <joseph.france@channel1.com> writes:
  17. > 
  18. > >GT>With this [LED's Conditioner] I've been able to get 2 - 2.5 hours of
  19. > >GT>useful time on a PB 170 with 2Mb of RAM and 10MB of virtual memory
  20. > >GT>running MS Word 4.0.
  21. >  
  22. > Interesting.  Seems to go against the earlier post's warning against
  23. > draining the batteries all the way.  Anyone know why?
  24. >  
  25.  
  26. I would assume that a "Power Conditioner" would have enough logic in it to
  27. avoid reversing a cell (which is the danger with manually discharging a
  28. nicad).
  29.  
  30. -tony
  31.  
  32. >>usual disclaimer<<
  33.