On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:19:41AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: > qu...@laptop.org wrote: > >> (If one discharges an XO battery outside the XO using a home lighting >> circuit, the displayed state of charge will be inconsistent. Persisting >> in this practice results in increasing inconsistency. Ceasing the >> practice results in decreasing inconsistency over several XO moderated >> charge and discharge cycles. The inconsistency results in forced >> power-down before the state of charge would suggest, manifesting as "my >> XO stops too soon".) > > How far off is it? The EC actually tries to detect this. The ACR > register will decrease when you use the battery outside the laptop.
Last I checked, some months ago, it was no more than about 30% error. I didn't proceed with the test beyond about that point. Good to know it tries to do something about it. -- James Cameron mailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
