HONEY if you do it right it does you right! Buy a new one and charge
it....... dis-charge it............ they last......... Play games they
blow you off... End of story Still getting three hours out of a 2 year old
battery Type III Duo 280c. And 2 hours out of my 2400....
Brandy
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Sira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of DuoList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm not sure where this notion comes from, but all Duo batteries (Type I,
> II, or III as well as the BTI "Type IV") are NiMH - there's no
> technological difference between them besides the different charge
> capacity. All NiMH batteries do develop a "memory effect", though it's not
> quite as bad as in NiCads. I've observed it firsthand (and corrected it
> with Battery Reconditioning). Finally, just letting the battery fully
> discharge *isn't* the same thing as running Apple's Battery Reconditioning
> app (and neither is Jeremy Kezer's Battery Amnesia - it's a neat little
> application, but it can't discharge even close to as deeply as Battery
> Reconditioning can). Do recondition all of your Duo batteries
occasionally.
> And no, it can't kill your hard drive, though it can put the final nail in
> the coffin of a battery that's beyond redemption (seen that too - a good
> thing actually, since you know then to give up on that battery). It may be
> marginally possible that a really damaged battery could send an excessive
> voltage through the Duo at startup time, however - I have seen one case
> where a Type II battery damaged by a poorly-built external reconditioner
> caused the chimes of death when I tried to start a Duo with it (but it
> didn't damage the Duo, and it started up fine once the battery was
removed).
>
> >As far as your software problem, try a fresh install of the
> >reconditioning software. Zap your pram and rebuild your desktop. Try
> >running it with a minimum extension set, if it runs then you know you
> >have an extension conflict. As a last resort re-install your system
> >software.
>
> The problem is actually an incompatibility with later versions of Battery
> Recondition; it will occur in that Duo regardless of the OS version. The
> original poster should get the version of the app (1.2) that comes with
> System 7.5[.x], or the slightly friendlier version 1.1 on the Battery
Tools
> 2.0 disk:
>
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Eng
lish
> -North_American/Macintosh/PowerBook/Other_PB_SW/Battery_Tools_2.0.sea.bin
>
>
> --
> Marc Sira | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "If you can't play with words, what good are they?"
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