[P1] Reviving a dead clamshell battery (The goodness of fellow Mac users)

[tinman]

Just a note to recognize a kindness. Brian was good enough to answer my 
call for help & offered to charge the batteries if I shipped them to 
him. He charged both of them & shipped them back to me. I now have two 
functional batteries to replace the dead ones I had before. I don't 
know if this type of thing happens in the Windoze world, but it's great 
to know we Mac people look out for each other.

tinman

On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:22 PM, Brian Pearce wrote:

>> The recent postings on clamshell batteries prompted me to pull out 
>> one of the extras I had in storage. I plugged it in & sure enough, 
>> the iBook will only work when plugged in. The machine doesn't 
>> recognize recognize that there is a battery in the machine. I have 
>> read of others who have had success resurrecting the batteries with a 
>> VST charger. I was wondering if anyone knows of any alternate methods 
>> I can attempt. I would like to avoid purchasing a charger that may or 
>> may not work, if possible.
>
> The only other solution you could try is leaving the iBook in sleep 
> mode for a few days, so the battery drains slowly; I did this 
> inadvertantly, and an older battery went from less than a half-hour 
> charge to nearly 45 minutes.
>
> If you're hesitant to buy the charger, you could always send your 
> battery to me, and I'd be willing to give it a try with my VST 
> charger. But if this is a two or three year old battery, it's probably 
> getting towards the end of its' useful life, and the VST charger won't 
> be of much help. (It wasn't for me.)
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