From: Johannes Wolf (mp2100_at_mail-gw.estec.esa.int)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 01:22:36 PDT
What you have seen is an indication that your battery is coming close to end
of life.
In case the battery is totally empty (near 0 V), the charging current is
getting too high, the power adapter will start to limit the current (max.
1.3 Amps) and therefore reduce the output voltage.
This is indicated from the Newt and interpreted as "deep toast" - as a
consequence, the Newt switches off the charging current - you saw a few
milliamps only.
When you restart the Newt, the Battery may have taken some charge during the
hours of feeding it with a few milliamps as you reported. As a consequence,
the Battery has regained a certain voltage that is lower than the expected
minimum voltage - in this case the Newt will show "preliminaryCharge" which
means that the Newt will not yet apply the full charging current like in the
fast charging mode.
After the initial voltage is reached, the newt will assume the battery to be
ok and will continue with the well known charging procedure fast charging
and then trickle charging continuous.
Cheers
Johannes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Dan
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:59 AM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Interesting Emate/Nicks Battmon message
> I hit the reset/reboot again and it took a charge this time and no odd
> messages. Weird. Looks like the "deeptoast" is the equivalent of "bad
> battery" but I didn't get the "this battery is bad you need to replace it"
> pop up dialogue message. Definitely odd.
> -Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> >Hi all,
> >Well one of my emates had a dead battery today (forgot and not charged it
> >for a few weeks) so I pluged it in. It did the usual restart
> due to total
> >loss of power and after the full restart/reboot I shut it off and left it
> to
> >charge. A few hours later I looked and noticed that the charge indicator
> >light was still not green so I turned it on and started Nicks Battmon to
> >find out how much longer till it finished (I thought it should have been
> >done by now). Well under "charge state" instead of saying "fastcharging"
> or
> >"tricklechargecontinous" I get "deeptoast". Now I never saw that before.
> >Anyone else ever see that in a Battery monitor on a NOS 2.1?
> *snip*
>
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