On Saturday 09 August 2003 05:36 pm, Shawn Harley wrote: > Mark, > My Wallstreet sat unused for a long period of time, and a good battery > would no longer take a charge or show up in the control strip(OS 9). I > zapped PRAM, reset Power Manager, and left "bad" battery in Wallstreet, > shut down and plugged in to AC for a few days undisturbed. Battery now > works fine. Worth a try.
Second that. If you plug your Wallstreet in for at least overnight, more is better, often you can revive a tired battery. The backup battery requires at least overnight charging to kickstart, and I have heard that 48 hours plugged in time without use is optimum for reviving the backup battery. Main battery paradoxically requires less charging time. You have to also unlearn habits you might have learned with NiCad and NiMH batteries...a LiIon battery can be successfully "topped off" without depleting it completely. In fact, letting a LiIon battery completely discharge can fatally damage it. At least, this is what I have heard... -.\\<-H- -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
