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From: sjo@cci632.UUCP (Steve Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Technical reference manuals for Toshiba/T1000SE battery
Summary: Battery dischargers
Message-ID: <48374@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 91 16:32:23 GMT
References: <16221@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
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In article <16221@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, pastor@PRC.Unisys.COM (Jon Pastor) writes:

[ Lines about discharging computer batteries with 10 Ohm resistor deleted. ]

	This may be a cheap solution, but it still may not depleat the 
batteries properly.  Why not buy a cheap battery discharger for a radio
controlled car?  You can get a decent one for less than $30, and they usually
come with an ammeter and a timer for controlling the length of discharge time.
The only modification you'd need to make would be to change the connector
to the proper one for your battery (I'm, of course, *assuming* that this is the
way the battery is constructed for laptops.)

	If you get a charger/discharger, you could have several battery
packs ready to go.  That way, you'd only have to switch the packs.

	I make no claim to know how laptops work.  Heck, I don't even
own one (...yet.  The urge is growing, though.  |-)

> Jon Pastor			pastor@prc.unisys.com


					SJO