Re: [NTLK] More dead battery talk

From: Frank Gruendel (fg2_at_pda-soft.de)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 15:41:43 PST


>To
>review, when I plugged in the Newton with the 9W adapter and inserted
>the battery pack, the battery meter on Avi's Backdrop shows NiMH as
>the battery type. It starts something called a preliminary charge then
>it fast charges for a few minutes then it switches to trickle charge
>but the battery has not been charged enough to even start the Newton.

I don't recall this thread fully, sorry if you said you did, but:
Have you tried charging for two hours no matter what the Newton says
it's doing? I have some 130's here that claim they are trickle-charging
from the beginning to the end of the charge cycle...

Frank

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