Keep in mind that there is a small processor in the battery pack that "talks" to any outside connections. It's the culprit for identifying the condition of the battery, keeping track of charge/discharge cycles, etc.
Over time this gets out of calibration, which can result in erroneous readings. That being the case, the battery can be perfectly fine, but if the controller says it's not, you're not doing anything with it, like it or not. On the support page for Mac notebook batteries there is a link to the proper procedure for recalibration. I would highly advise that you try this at least once, and possibly twice if the battery has never been recalibrated. MacDan --- On Mon, 8/31/09, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mac battery warranty question. > To: "Diesel List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 1:05 PM > In fact on the new Mac's its > REQUIRED. Guy that sits next to me has a MacBook Pro and his > battery life was really poor when he first got it. I pointed > out that he ought to be exercising the battery which he did > and now the battery life is real good. > > -Curt > > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:35:10 -0400 > From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mac battery warranty question. > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Message-ID: <m1ab1g3jnl....@cs.indiana.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Used to be that a couple of full discharges followed by > full recharges > could recondition a battery to some extent. Don't know if > that still > works with current battery technology. > > Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> > writes: > > > Try a system reset before condeming the battery -- > they sometimes get > > a confused power manager circuit, and a reset will > restore full > > operation. > > > > On my Pismo, it's a small button, but I think the > later ones use a > > keyboard combination of some sort. > > > > -- > 1983 300D > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090831/7bc01a83/attachment.html> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
