Re: [Thinkpad] RE: T41 Battery dropout

From: Bill at thinkpads dot com <bill_at_thinkpads.com>
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 09:44:47 EDT

how LONG does it "chug along"..??
and
yes, this is, more or less, normal, though not common..
you DO have a 1 year warrantyt on the battery.. use it if the battery is
failing.. :-)

Happy Trails..

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Bill Morrow
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answering from my T42p in lieu of the
damn server which is misbehaving..

my thought for today:
Shit happens! Best be elsewhere when it does.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lam" <jeff.lam.04@student.agsm.edu.au>
To: <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:17 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] RE: T41 Battery dropout

>
> Hello,
>
> My T41 will chug along quite happily on its battery until the meter reads
> about 15%, whereupon it suddenly drops to about 4%. Is this normal or is
it
> indicative of a defective battery/inaccurate metering software?
>
> The machine is about 4 months old and have quite deliberately limited the
> number of charge cycles on the battery.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
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