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- From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Low battery warning on HP 95 with Millennium Batteries
- Message-ID: <58193@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 05:01:07 GMT
- References: <WSE.92Dec30141152@helios.dfci.harvard.edu> <lk4b0mINN2j7@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India
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- In article <lk4b0mINN2j7@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
- > My experience seems to be that the hp95 has hysterisis so that once the
- > low battery warning comes on, it won't go away until the battery
- > voltage goes above some higher (2.7 volts?) threshold. Nicads don't
-
- True ... its 2.5 v, but the hp95lx caliberation is not too correct
- always, so sometimes the nicads dont trip the high water mark.
-
- Millenium NIcads if fast charged on their 3 hour charger come
- out a just a little warm and are 2.8v for a few tens of minutes of
- use. That trips my low batt off.
-
- -- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )
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