I'm going to leave it on the charger through Monday afternoon, and if
it isn't up by 4 PM CST on Monday, I'll call OWC. I can't have it down
for any considerable amount of time, though, even if it means that I
have to drag the yoyo everywhere, like it or not.
Tom, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer all my stupid
questions about the Lombard battery, as it's the first laptop with a
Li-Ion I've had in a long time. The last was a Toshiba Satellite that
died within two months of my getting it, so I'm not even going to
consider it. I can squeeze a bit of life out of ancient NiMH batteries,
as my old 190 is proof of. I still brag about my squeezing almost 6
hours out of a factory battery on the 190, on my freshman band trip to
Florida. Then again, it lasted through the entire flight to LA for the
BPA conference the next week, so it's a real battery miser.
Well, thanks for all your help,
Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 01:12 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:
Caleb,
I don't know what battery reset utility does, because it won't work
with my
Pismo, but I do know that when I first got the battery from OWC it did
not
charge at all for quite a while and then only a little bit even though
the
lights stated otherwise. I then just left it for the weekend and was
planning on calling OWC to complain the following Monday. By Monday it
was
fully charged and good to go and has worked ever since.
I know the batteries have a circuit board in them, as I tried to
rebuild one
once, but couldn't figure out how to convince the circuit board that
it now
had new cells installed and never could get it to work. I don't see
how the
battery utility could break the battery, but I have heard that
completely
draining them makes them act strange and possibly not function any
longer.
If it is new, you should be able to send it back if you can't get it
to work
and get a replacement if charging for a day or two doesn't work. If
you got
it from OWC, they are very good about replacing items they sell that
don't
function properly.
Tom
On 1/8/06 12:51 AM, "Caleb Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Tom, not to sound ignorant or anything, but aren't the little lights
supposed to come on when it's charging, because mine certainly aren't.
Even on my first attempt immediately after getting the battery, which
resulted in OS X showing 100 % charge well before any actual charge,
the lights were on. On the second try, which was after I believed OS X
and tried to use the thing, I got three lights and 66% charge, before
I
got brilliant and decided to reset the thing using the "Battery Reset
Utility" in OS 9. Nothing has happened since.
So, did I break my $140 battery, is it the battery at fault, or is it
just not wanting to do anything because the planets aren't aligned
properly?
Any help would be appreciated before I throw the Lombard through a
second-story window or two in frustration.
Caleb
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