[Ti] PB Batteries

T.L. Miller tlmiller at mac.com
Fri Feb 4 14:13:16 PST 2005


Over a year ago, someone posted this guidance to check on PB batteries

>go to terminal (located in your appications>utilities folder)
>
> and run the following command
>
> " ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo"
>
> the response will look like this
>
> "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4144,
>"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=160,"Voltage"=11431,"Flags"=1090519175})
>
> the flags will equal a regular # like 4, if it is not plugged into the wall.
>
> A "good" number in my opinion is from 4000 to 4500 i beleive. I have
>seen someone get 4515. I got 4400 when i first put the battery in.
>
> I just reset my power management info and am fully charging it for the
>first time. My current readout is 4.144. I am happy with this.

I got the following in Terminal on my 12" G4 PB. Does this indicate that
its battery is getting tired?

 Last login: Thu Feb  3 18:40:09 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
[localhost:~] tlmiller%  ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo
    | |   |   |     "IOBatteryInfo" =
({"Capacity"=3757,"Amperage"=0,"Current"=$
[localhost:~] tlmiller% 



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