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- From: benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: powerbook battery lif
- Date: 12 Sep 1992 14:56:00 -0500
- Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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- References: <1992Sep7.1164.13909@channel1> <laogtlINNab3@nada.cs.utexas.edu> <wingo-080992101208@zardoz.apple.com>
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- In article <wingo-080992101208@zardoz.apple.com> wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
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- >I would assume that a "Power Conditioner" would have enough logic in it to
- >avoid reversing a cell (which is the danger with manually discharging a
- >nicad).
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- Could be... Tho if the cells are simply in series, then there's nothing
- the device could do. It would have to attach to either end, and
- would be no different than attaching any other load.
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