Here is mine, it's a 12 cell about 1 year old and I compile things _all_ the time because it is Gentoo. Laptop batteries are only good for about 3 years, and I think mine is probably about normal.
present: yes design capacity: 6000 mAh last full capacity: 4039 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 14800 mV design capacity warning: 300 mAh design capacity low: 180 mAh capacity granularity 1: 264 mAh capacity granularity 2: 3780 mAh model number: Primary serial number: battery type: Lion OEM info: Hewlett-Packard On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 23:56 +0200, Håkan Wikström wrote: > Just a little addition to this topic: > > As I have started commuting again I find myself using my laptop on the > train to work and back, but battery time has decreased a whole lot > since I got my system a year ago. I have had my nx9105 for exactly one > year now and do not have an extra battery. The one I have is the 8 > cell battery and the ACPI battery info tells a sad tale: > > ====================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info > present: yes > design capacity: 4400 mAh > last full capacity: 1627g mAh > battery technology: rechargeable > design voltage: 14800 mV > design capacity warning: 220 mAh > design capacity low: 132 mAh > capacity granularity 1: 264 mAh > capacity granularity 2: 3780 mAh > model number: Primary > serial number: > battery type: Lion > OEM info: Hewlett-Packard > ====================== > > Its current "full" capacity is almost down to one third of the design > rating! The only batteries that have gone useless faster than this on > me are the Thinkpad 600E batteries which are known to be broken by > design. > > Anyone else care to show their battery info, and if you have managed > to keep it at an OK rating - how did you do it? I'm not entirely > ignorant about lithium ion batteries and how they should be treated. > > > Håkan > > > On 6/15/05, Arul John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JT: Thanks for the info. I heard the same thing about Li-ion > batteries. > > Norm: Thanks. Ill check out the site. > > I guess I'll just get a 12 cell battery; heard they last for a > very long > time (and from Jonathan's previous mail). > > ~arul > > > Norm Finlay wrote: > > > Here is a link for some decent battery use and care > information: > > > > http://www.batteryuniversity.com > > > > > > -Norm > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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