From: Thomas Sluyter (tsluyter_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 02:47:10 PST
<drama queen>
Oh woe is me! Oh woe!... Whatever shall become of me?
Only recently did I buy that prized apparatus: my eMate300. I was
forced to leave it at home while we went on a holiday and apparantly
the batteries didn't feel that was very fair. For they have become
quite fickle and do only as they please.
</drama queen>
Right... Back to proper english :)
As I said: I had to leave the eMate alone for about two weeks. Before
that the batteries were working pretty well. I got a nice days of work
done on it and would have quite a bit of charge left in the evening.
However, upon my return they have become a tad flaky. So now I believe
I may have to resort to replacing them sometime soon.
For example:
* I charged the battery fully yesterday.
* I left the system running all night, so I could see if it still holds
a proper charge
* This morning when I woke up the system had switched off.
* Had to perform a soft reset to get it to wake up.
* The eMate reports that it had shut down because power had been
disconnected.
* When attaching the adapter the battery tool reports that there's
about 15% charge left.
* HOWEVER, here's the odd part: when removing the adapter immediately
the battery tool all of a sudden reports a 100% charge.
* Had it running on the battery for about 45 minutes now and it's down
to ~90%.
How strange is that?
Now, when I bought the eMate the seller (Simon who's also a member of
this mailing list) mentioned that the battery was still the original
from '97, so I'm not completely surprised by the eMates behaviour. Just
thought I'd be a bit of a drama queen :P
/me starts saving up pennies and dimes for replacement parts.
Cheers!
Thomas
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