From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 09:42:51 PDT
yup..you have a dead rechargeable...need to rebuild
the batt pack.
I'm having the same problem. I only get a day's use
out of my battery pack.
Now...where WAS that page on rebuilding battery
packs???
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)
--- Rhonda Hyslop <0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net>
wrote:
> Well, not the battery on my main newton, that one is
> fine. It's the
> spare we picked up when newts were going dirt cheap
> in boxes of ten. I
> figured I'd use it to play with newton development,
> so I don't have to
> worry about nuking my regular newton. (BTW, is
> there a good newton
> *backup* program - not a sync program - for either
> Linux or OS X? I
> used to use NCU in classic, but don't have classic
> anymore, and haven't
> gotten basilisk talking to my newt yet. I haven't
> backed up my newton
> in over a year.)
>
> Anyhow, I've charged and discharged it about six
> times in the last few
> days. If I don't plug the power cord in as soon as
> it's fully
> discharged and turns itself off (no low battery
> warning) then I have to
> do strange things like put the power adapter
> in/out/in/out/in/out oh
> look, it turned on! A couple of times even that
> didn't work and I had
> to leave the battery out and the power unplugged for
> a few hours, before
> it turned on. Then I had to play with it to get it
> to start charging.
>
> It was at 100% about 1 minute ago; now it's at 20%.
> Dropping smoothly,
> but frighteningly fast. When I plugged it back in,
> it only took a few
> minutes to read 100% again, and I know that can't be
> right.
>
> Should I keep trying, or is this battery a lost
> cause?
>
> MP2100, NiMH.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rhonda
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