Laptop battery advice

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On 2005.5.3, BillW wrote:




> My Sharp PC-4501 ('89 era) actually uses the fourth battery type
> called Lead-Acid (Pb).

So did the Apple/Sony PowerBook 100. I remember those batteries being
fairly easy to kill. They were also heavy.


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"Garglemonster" <garglemonster@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:87ekcnponl.fsf@shroud.disorg...
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 01:04:46 -0400

On 2005.5.3, BillW wrote:

> My Sharp PC-4501 ('89 era) actually uses the fourth battery type
> called Lead-Acid (Pb).

So did the Apple/Sony PowerBook 100. I remember those batteries
being fairly easy to kill. They were also heavy.

Well I knew a great deal about the care and feeding of lead-acid
batteries and mine lasted over 10 years. And at the time, the trick
was to always have it on a trickle charge. Well whenever you can of
course. Also they generally don't like to be left in a discharged
state for too long. 6 to 12 hours is probably okay. But any longer
really does a lot of harm to them.

Although later after the battery died. I also learned that you
should discharge them a bit every few months (all it takes is
running them off of the battery for 5 to 10 minutes should be just
fine). As this burns off the corrosion off of the plates (that white
powder stuff). Then throw it back on the charger again.




Cheers!


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Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD & Windows 98SE)
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