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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:20:10 +0100
From:      Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Funny battery values (nx6325)
Message-ID:  <20100320232010.GY52442@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4BA53638.1080500@obluda.cz>
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As Dan Lukes wrote:

> Three or four cycles of charging / depth depleting may recalibrate
> the internals and reported values may become more appropriate.

I wonder whether I'll better do that outside the computer though.
After all, the Coulomb counter in the battery does not care much
whether it is attached to a computer querying it or not.

> You should not stop the discharging prematurely - it affect the
> results.

I did want to reboot it into normal operation in order to allow the
nightly backup to run.  I simply ran out of time waiting for the
battery to drain completely.  Anyway, at a voltage level of < 9.0 V,
it wouldn't have lasted for another quarter of an hour.  (Worst case
cutoff level for a LiIon cell is around 2.7 V.)

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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