You may be able to extend its charge by repeatedly fully draining and charging the battery. This tends to clear any chemical blockages in the cells that may be limiting the amount of energy the battery can hold. You need to do it continually for about 36 hours to have the maximum effect. As far as I know, this technique works with Li-Ion, NiMh and NiCad batteries. Depending on how bad the blockage is, you may need to use special equipment to do it right :-(
Mike On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:37, Hans Fugal wrote: > I'm new to this laptop thing. > > I got my hands on a used laptop for the duration of the semester to do a > project in cs460. It's a Dell Latitude CPi (~300MHz) and it works great > except the battery is completely worthless. I've surfed around a bit and > it looks like I could get one on ebay for about $40-60 including > shipping, and new ones are a nudge over $100. Alas, I don't have that > kind of money, especially since I won't be keeping the laptop. But it's > a sad thing to be tethered to a power cord especially since I'll be > using wireless. > > Anyone know where I can get a functional (not necessarily good...) > battery for quite cheap, or have one I can borrow? > > -- > Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. > http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg > http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Assistant, Network Security Lab | Dept. of Comp. Science | Brigham Young University Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies | like a banana. | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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