Re: Damaging batteries?



On 26 Mar, 15:58, Chris Hill <hil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:20:11 -0700 (PDT), Gianandrea

<ggo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've just bought a new battery for my HP ZD7000, since my original one
looked like gone. But to my suprise the new one is not working
properly: after a couple of hours of recharge it just lasted 20
minutes, i reapeated the cycle and I got the same results.
I installed MobileMeter and I can see the wear level jumping to 29 %
after some cycles. It really looks like the power management is
ruining my batteries.
Is there any advanced tool to diagnose what's going on?
Thanks,

A real new battery or some cheap knock-off you found somewhere
unmentionable. If it isn't a factory battery, you know little more
than you did before. The problem could be a crappy battery or a
problem with the charging circuit or power adapter.

G.

It's an original, maybe stored too long before selling it. But what
puzzles me is that it was disrgharging well, with an estimated time of
a couple of hours. Then suddendtly windows suspended, even if the
action were DISABLED in the power panel. Looks like a buggy
functioning of the windows power management.
.



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