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Give your battery a thorough checkup
Authored by: wOOge on Mar 13, '03 10:56:31AM
i have an iBook 500 (Dual USB) and ran the script to find out where i'm at:

The norm for my ibook is a capacity of 3.9 I'm running a capacity of 2.493

I always knew my battery was kacking out on me... now i just have proof..!!

here was my script's output: voltage=11901 flags=7/0x007 amperage=1200 capacity=2493 current=1545 [62.0%]



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Give your battery a thorough checkup
Authored by: lockley on Mar 13, '03 03:44:24PM

I have a Dual USB iBook from July 2001 and here are my reading just after I have removed the power cable and the iBook has finished calculating.

voltage=12313 flags=4/0x004 amperage=1200 capacity=1431 current=1426 [99.7%]

My capacity seems to be way down. I only upgraded to Jaguar (then 10.2.3) at beginning of Feb. this year. When I was running 10.1.5 I was always getting well over of 2 hours of battery time being displayed in the menu bar, but now I'm lucky if I get 1:30 hours. Time for a new battery, or wait for 10.2.5?

How come I get the same flags value (4/0x004) as tamenti "Making a log?" comment? And what is the flag value anyway (I know it is a Hex value)?

Other than that, Jaguar and 10.2.4 is going great. No other side-effects of the 10.2.4 upgrade that others have reported.



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