Re: [701] Battery: What's that chip doing inside there?

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From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_msu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 21:15:30 EST

COOL! Thanks for posting this! I'd been wondering about the
Dallas chips but hadn't gotten around for foraging for this data
yet. Thanks for doing the legwork...

--STeve Andre'

At 09:08 PM 3/22/01 -0500, Tim Ikeda wrote:
>Donald MacQueen <dmacq_at_erols.com> asked:
>[...]
> >why do they put counters on batteries? planned obsolescence?
>
>Probably not, but I've never worked with marketing types so
>I can't claim to know how they really operate ;^)
>
>Batteries could use counters for making better estimates for "fuel
>gauges" (the amount of charge remaining). Counters might also be
...

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