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From: daveharv@pro-novapple.cts.com (Dave Harvey (SysAdmin))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Still Ticking!
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Date: 7 Dec 90 16:36:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz


>This seems to imply that the more you use your GS, the longer your battery
>should last. This is not what I have experienced.
>I use my GS a LOT, and am on my 3rd battery, and I know another guy who is
>also on his 3rd. He also managed to get a motherboard swap with the first

There was also a problem in some of the early GS's where a diode used for
charging the battery was installed wrong and causeing the battery to fail
prematurily.  Maybe that's why you've been going thru so many batteries.
I've had my GS for a few years and still have the original
battery.  I never turn my GS off; I have a UPS powering it.
 
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