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From: scott@hpcvca.HP.COM (Scott Linn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problem with HP 110
Message-ID: <4480005@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 18:50:56 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>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
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Ah, but the 110 has a lead-acid gel-cell gates battery.  It is *not*
good to discharge this type of battery.  It is best to keep it trickle
charged.

Scott Linn
HP - Northwest IC Division