On Wed 24 May 2017 at 10:04:00 (-0300), Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, David. > > On 28/03/17 16:24, David Wright wrote: > > >> Yes, as I mentioned in another message in this thread, I have already > >> contacted the supplier to go asking for availability and prices. > > > I'll cross my fingers for you. Please do likewise as these are > > the figures from one of my laptops: > > > > Charger in: > > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=3800000 > > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=872000 > > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=3800000 > > > > Charger out: > > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=3800000 > > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=872000 > > POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=828000 > > > > IOW my baseline after 8 years is about 20% capacity. > > Sorry for my delay in responding. > > I'll cross my fingers for you, David. How did your laptop battery continue?
Nowadays this battery merely acts like an UPS because the laptop has to be plumbed in to a monitor to be usable (or else used over ssh). As reported earlier, there's a fault in the screen circuitry which means it's not really a portable anymore. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00533.html > Just yesterday I took my notebook to the provider to test with a new > battery. He said that today he will be contacting me to let me know the > result of the test. > > I'll let you know when I have news. Something I can add since my last > update to the mailing list is that the battery charge level with the > charger connected was gradually falling. At the time I took it to the > provider I had 18%. It would certainly be interesting to see the numbers from a new battery if you buy one. I've never owned a laptop (or any other computer, for that matter) from new. Cheers, David.