Re: [Thinkpad] What's the actual full capacity of your battery?

COme on guys.
If you are still under one year and your batt is not too great, just call
IBM and tell them it's shot and they'll send you a new one. That's the point
of having a warranty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Bell" <RobDBell@netscape.net>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] What's the actual full capacity of your battery?

> "upilogue@mailup.net" wrote:
>
> >I'm just wondering if the degradation of full-capacity on my battery is
> >typical. It's the 6-cell T40 battery. The design capacity 47.52 Wh. The
> >actual full charge capacity has diminished to 41.53 Wh after only 31
> >charge cycles. What's yours like?
> >
> >Also, with the 1-yr warranty, what's people experience about getting
> >replacement from IBM - what constitutes a replacement-needed situation?
> >What if the full charge capacity goes below a certain low level - would
> >they just consider that as typical wear? Not that I'm going to ask for
> >replacement now though.
>
> We have a fairly new T40 with the standard battery. It has 8 cycles on
> it and shows a full charge capacity of 48.15 Wh still.
>
> Rob
>
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