[Ti] Battery Life?

[Trevor J. Hutley]

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:11:13 +0100
From: "Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>
Subject: Re: [Ti] Battery Life?

At 16:33 -0500 24-1-2003, Seymour J. Wolfson wrote:
>I have one of the original TiPB when they first came out, and, as I 
>recall, they were supposed to last about 4 hours on the battery.  I 
>have been doing OK for a long time, but most recently I noticed that 
>after about 1.5 hours, the battery gives out.  In fact it happens so 
>fast, I do not even have enough time to shut it down before it goes 
>into the coma state.
>Is this what should be expected or is this battery dying?

Seymour - I have an "original" Ti-500, and my (original) attery is 
now almost dead.
It has been getting worse, but very recently has massively deteriorated.
I get the feeling that 2 years (its age) may be the "life" of a Li-ion battery.

For example, I just unplugged from the mains, and the batery life is 
shown as 8 minutes !

On a flight last Saturday, I wrote a few email, and then it just 
suddenly died.....

A new battery is on my critical path.

regards,  Trevor

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I shut down my Powerbook today and reset the Power Manager.
This has made no difference to my poor battery performance.
As soon as I unplug my Ti-500 from the mains, the time remaining 
shows as 8 minutes.
That means it is losing 12% of the stored power per minute ....!

A new (63 mAh) battery has been ordered from Apple.  I should have it 
within the week.

regards,  Trevor