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From: dennett@kodak.UUCP (Charlie Dennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problem with HP 110
Message-ID: <1208@kodak.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:27:02 GMT
References: <4257@cup.portal.com> <290001@hpuecoa.HP.COM> <4646@hplabsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: dennett@kodak.UUCP (charlie dennett)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY
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In article <4646@hplabsb.UUCP> dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) writes:
>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.  

I was under the impression that the batteries in the 110 were gel-cell 
bateries.  Is this so?  Do they have the same memory problem that 
Ni-Cads do?  I've also seen the charge meter get out of sync with the actual
charge level on the batteries.  It's been a while but i think the solution
is to let the batteries sit on the charger long enough so that you are sure
they are at peak charge.  Then push a button that is somewhere on the back 
of the 110.  This will reset the charge meter  back to 99%.  I no longer
have access to an HP110 but I do remember reading about this procedure
in the manual.  (All this was at least two years ago.)

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