On Don, 2003-03-20 at 11:42, Edward G. Speyer wrote: > > http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~egs21/iBook-battery-log.gz > > Note how my max_charge has dropped from 3404 to 2874. Should I be alarmed > or is this just the PMU giving me dodgy statistics? (It does seem odd how > max_charge only drops when the battery is emptied.)
I do think deep discharge is the worst enemy of these batteries, unfortunately. I usually do at least one deep discharge a day, and the battery in the old TiBook lost about half an hour of capacity in less than a year. Compare that to the good old Pismo, the battery of which was like new after almost two years of daily deep discharges... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast