[mdlug] Battery memory issue

[Rich Elswick]

Hi Jim,

If you want to know what the battery is capable of, then look at the
Amp-Hour (Ah) rating of the battery, then hook up a rig (seperate from the
laptop), use the appropriate charging and discharging strategy for you
battery type, charge it to 100% State of Charge (SOC), then dischage to to
0% SOC to get the present Ah rating of your battery.  NOTE: Monitor
everything very closely.  Perhaps even doing it in a detached garage,
perhaps even done outside.  Monitor the voltages and temperatures.  Then
after all that, look up the cost of a replacement battery and realize how
much time you just wasted and then buy a new one anyways. :)

DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for anything you do based upon the
suggestions above, your actions are your own and therefore up for a
nominations to the Darwin Awards should something untoward happen.

Rich Elswick



On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Robert Jim Fulner <fulner at gmail.com>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> My wife has had her laptop about a year now. Even though I had
> suggested otherwise she more or less has kept the machine plugged in
> all the time.
>
> Now that we are away on vacation the machine stays on for about 6
> minutes not plugged in. Aside from buying a new battery, is there
> anything we can do to improve functionality?
>
> If it matters, she runs windoze vista home edition, and I boot DSL off
> of usb when she's not looking. (she doesn't like me "penginizing" her
> computer).
>
> Jim
>
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