[Ti] Battery Life

[S. Moussly]

Does draining the battery and charging it back up help with the battery
life?

Sam


On 8/25/03 10:23 AM, "Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch> wrote:

> At 19:25 -0400 8/24/03, Chris Malanga wrote:
>> Hi all... Have a TiBook 550 Mhz... About 18 months old.  Wondering what the
>> battery life should be. ...//... I get about an hour.
> 
> With Li-Ion batteries, the end-of-life is signalled by shorter and
> shorter operational times on full charge.
> 
> After about 2y, I had to replace the battery on my Ti-500, as I was
> getting less and less time on a charged battery; in the end, only
> about 15 or 30 minutes....
> 
> The fully-charged battery now gives me between 2h45 and 4 h,
> depending on the software running, and how I set the Energy Saver.
> 
> Newer batteries have higher capacities that the original ones.
> 
> If you are getting just 1 h now you, will be soon down to 45 minutes,
> then 30 min, then 15 min.....
> 
> T.
> 
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