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- From: awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe)
- Subject: Re: powerbook battery lif
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.205809.9418@Princeton.EDU>
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- Sender: awolfe@moo (Andrew Wolfe)
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- Organization: Princeton University
- References: <1992Sep7.1164.13909@channel1> <laogtlINNab3@nada.cs.utexas.edu> <5167@gold.gvg.tek.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:58:09 GMT
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- In article <5167@gold.gvg.tek.com>, bryanh@stout.gvg.tek.com (Bryan Hilterbrand) writes:
- |> In article <laogtlINNab3@nada.cs.utexas.edu> benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards) writes:
- |>
- |> In my manual, they say to NEVER completely drain a PB100's battery. It
- |> damages the lead-acid batteries to drain them all the way, and they
- |> won't hold a charge as well after that.
- |>
- |> They also say to completely drain the PB140 and PB170's memory once a
- |> month (or so). They claim that it aids the lithium batteries, and they
- |> will hold a charge better if you do this.
- |>
- |> By the way -- THIS IS FROM MEMORY; check your own manual before doing
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- |> any of this!!
- |>
- ...
- |>
- |> Bryan
- |>
- |>
- |> Bryan Hilterbrand bryanh@stout.GVG.TEK.COM | /\ /\
- |> Grass Valley Group, Production Systems Division | __/ G\/G \__
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- Need to work on that memory a bit :-)
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- The PB100 uses Silver-Hydride batteries. The others use Nickel-Cadmium.
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- Andrew Wolfe
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Princeton University
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