From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 07:14:23 PST
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:28:39AM -0500, John wrote:
> >My 2100 has been working perfectly for years. Today it would not start up.
>
> ....also, someone else help me out on this for Graham, but I remember
> something about putting the battery case in the freezer for 10 minutes
> or so to trick the Newton into doing a recharge or something, but forget
> the details. John
That's a trick for getting an over-drained NiMH battery to start
charging (by giving the battery more time to suck up the initial charge
before the pack heats enough that the charging circuitry decided the
cells are dead.) Nothing to do with getting the newt to start.
--
49. If I learn the whereabouts of the one artifact which can destroy me, I
will not send all my troops out to seize it. Instead I will send them
out to seize something else and quietly put a want-ad in the local paper.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
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