On 4/29/02 3:30 PM, "Ed Kummel" <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> You might want to keep an eye on your battery
> discharge times. If it seems that your battery isn't
> lasting as long as you think it should, then perhaps
> you need to condition it. This entails draining the
> battery completly dead, then fully charging it, and
> repeating for a total of 3 cycles. Once you do this,
> the battery should function as close to new as
> possible. If it doesn't help, then your battery is
> probably close to the end of it's days.
> The 2x00 doesn't have a backup battery. And if you
> pull all power out of your Newton, several buroughs in
> New York will be without power for several hours ;-P
> No...nothing will happen to your data! honestly! And
> here is something else...if you pull the backup
> battery out of a 120, and take the main batteries out,
> nothing will happen to your data either! The Newt has
> non-volatile memory! It will hold it indefinatly! Just
> as a test, I fired up my original 120 and it has
> everything I put there when I shelved it 3-4 years
> ago!
Ain't these green things great!
> Ed> web/gadget guru
> http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
> http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
> subdomain)
>
> --- Michael Mays <chaosmonk_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> And this, years before Palm put quick-charge
>> batteries in their PDAs.
>> I'm very, very impressed. :D I no longer refer to
>> my Newton as a
>> PDA...it's now a "palmtop computer" whereas
>> everything else is just a
>> PDA. :)
>>
>> One more question I've thought up. Does the 2x00
>> have a backup battery
>> like the 1x0 series? And if so, how do I replace
>> this? And if not, what
>> happens if I pull the battery out... do I lose any
>> of my data?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Michael Mays
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
>> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf
>> Of David Abramowitz
>> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:49 PM
>> To: Newton
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newton battery questions
>>
>>
>> On 4/29/02 3:39 PM, "Michael Mays"
>> <chaosmonk_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 1) I'm assuming the battery charges when
>> plugged in while the
>> pad
>>> is powered off, but am I wrong in this?
>>
>> You are correct. As long as it's plugged in, it's
>> charging.
>>
>>> 2) How long should a battery typically take
>> to charge in the
>>> MP2000? It seems like I plug mine in and 10
>> minutes or so later it's
>>> done charging. And the battery meter on Avi's
>> Backdrop seems to climb
>>> like a rocket when it's plugged in. I thought
>> these sort of batteries
>>> would take much more time to charge up. It would
>> be NICE if it only
>>> took a few minutes to charge, but I'm not going to
>> assume anything of
>>> the sort. Does this mean that my battery is
>> screwy? Last time I
>> charged
>>> it it lasted a very long time on battery.
>>>
>> Yup - it only takes a few minutes to fully charge -
>> life is good.
>>
>>
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