On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all: >--} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the >--} way out? I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery >--} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months now, and stayed >--} pretty stable. Unless some of the cells just died. >--} >--} Thanks
If you're uncertain about the battery, I have resurrected a battery from a laptop by putting it in a plastic bag and into the freezer for about 4 - 5 hours. then taking it out and recharging it fully. It came back to close enough to new and is still going strong. But your mileage may vary, because a good deal depends on the battery and just how good it is, etc., etc.. The one I did was a Toshiba laptop battery from a lappy I had been given. I have always found that to get the most out of the life of a laptop battery, you have to run it right out, something that, I think, the latest windows won't allow, till it just drops right out. This way there is no memory built up, but when the battery finally does (*) really die. It's dead for ever. As well you have to have a good filesystem like ext3 on the lappy, that will recover from this kind of crash, and of course, manually save everything for the last 3 minutes or so of battery life, and just play a game or something till it crashes, with everything else shut down. The battery will then last for years, or does in my case. I have to use laptops because we have solar power, and have to husband our power and use it frugally. Hope that helps. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. .............................Henry David Thoreau <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Debian - Just the best way to do magic.
