From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Tue Oct 06 1998 - 15:02:50 EDT
>> 3:05 if I was lucky. One other small quirk-supposidly I should have around
>> 1min after the main battery is fully discharged for the system to go into
>> suspend and so that I can get to an Ac source, right? When I'm working,
>> even in Dos, I'll get the warning beep, but then my system just shuts down.
>> I have never had the warning beeps come before-hand. Defeats the purpos in
>> my mind.
>
>A lot of 701 owners had this problem. Another common problem
>was the battery cutting out when the Fn-F2 meter showed
>10%-20% remaining.
>
Especially if it happens in class. And I can't hot swap the batteries
because of the darn hot swap battery.
>Anyhow, don't worry about any sort of memory effect with the
>701's NiMH battery. I had mine stuck in the machine, on AC
>24/7 for nearly two years. When I sold it last week, that
>battery still held about 2.5 hours of charge.
>
I have both a NiMH and a NiCAD, and both yield good life.
>With a normal NiMH, you'd have to deep-discharge it from time
>to time to condition it, and prevent its capacity from
>dropping too quickly. Doing what I did would've kiled it in a
>couple months (I did that to a couple 750 NiMHs :-).
>
So, with the 750, that's good, or bad?
Anyone got any 750 NiMH's that they want to sell???
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