Re: [Thinkpad] Batteries - what is normal and how to handle

On Mi, 2004-06-02 at 18:49, Daniel Winkler wrote:
> Is this normal for a brand new battery?

A brand-new Li-Ion battery needs a few cycles to gain their full
capacity.

> Hoping to recalibrate the electronic I let
> the notebook run till it everything went out.

> Does anyone have experiences, if this might be harmful to the batteries
> or if it is really as helpful as someone told me .. ?

Both. ;)
It harms the battery *and* it can recalibrate the internal capacity
meter.

See
http://illuminati.stderr.org/pipermail/thinkpad/2004-March/008870.html
for "my default information" to your questions. ;)

Greetings, UW(e)

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Received on Thu Jun 3 08:26:07 2004