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From: tnaa7@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp)
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Subject: Re: Battery Watch
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Date: 8 May 91 23:33:48 GMT
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>I had thought about buying it in order to *more* deeply discharge the
>ni-cad pack than simply running it down, as there is still 5-6 volts left
>after the computer ceases to run, so the pack is not fully discharged, only
>to the point where there isn't enough juice left to power the computer.
>
>Thoughts on this?
>
Yes....make shure you are testing the voltage of the NiCd under load. 
Perhaps a 50 ohm resistor in parallel w/ the voltmeter would be about right.
As far a discharging goes A 10 ohm resistor should immitate the laptop...
(8/10=.8A) Also do not dischage the battery to zero...each cell should not drop
below a certain level, which I am not shure of but I think it is in the .5 volt
area. So for a 7.5 volt pack 3 volts would be a good minimum I think.



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