On 10/10/2024 09:40, Terry Coles wrote:
I gather that battery analysers are available for lots of loot, so I'll try ringing around to see if any repair shops have one and can test the thing out.
No joy with that so far. The problem is that most of the shops have their own diagnostic tools, and they don't include battery analysers. One shop even told me that they would test the battery by plugging it in to the laptop! They would then know as much as I do, I imagine! Also, I haven't been able to find out if it is possible to charge the battery outside the laptop using a bench PSU. I've seen one website that did it, (with another battery type) but it seemed that he had to fool the laptop electronics that there was a battery connected by shorting two of the data pins together. (I recall that you suggested that this might be the problem, Ralph.) The problem is that I have no idea what the pinouts on the battery are, let alone which two pins to short together. My problem is that the fault is not very easy to diagnose without full service diagrams of the XPS 13 (9350), and I doubt that most computer shops would have that anyway. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-10-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
