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From: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problem with HP 110
Message-ID: <4646@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 21:49:03 GMT
References: <4257@cup.portal.com> <290001@hpuecoa.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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Summary: NiCad batteries need to be discharged

In article <290001@hpuecoa.HP.COM>, hals@hpuecoa.HP.COM (HAL SHEARER) writes:
>                                              He suggested that I not
> let the battery get so low as often, something that I had been doing
> with the old battery.

Presuming that the battery is a NiCad, that is bad advice.  NiCads develop
a memory for how low they have been discharged.  If a battery has not
been allowed to discharge very low for a long time, it will take a set
and never discharge very low in the future.  You should discharge a NiCad
all the way down every three months to maintain its capacity.

			David Smith