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capacity lowers when battery drained ?
Authored by: cynikal on Mar 19, '03 12:15:44AM

in an effort to keep myself from staying up too late when i already get home late from work, i decided to not use my power adapter so i would be forced to go to sleep when the battery ran out..

well i checked the battery before it ran out and after and i saw that my overall capacity lowered when i was re-charging the next day.. (ok i caved in and recharged it right after anyway)..

here's how it was before on its way down..

voltage=14293 flags=4/0x004 amperage=1670 capacity=4252 current=1021 [24.0%]
voltage=14037 flags=4/0x004 amperage=1987 capacity=4252 current=371 [8.7%]
voltage=13802 flags=404/0x194 amperage=1832 capacity=4252 current=121 [2.8%]

then i plugged it in and it started charging up and saw this..

voltage=14489 flags=389/0x185 amperage=1584 capacity=4195 current=6 [0.1%]
voltage=14862 flags=391/0x187 amperage=1206 capacity=4195 current=16 [0.4%]
voltage=15490 flags=7/0x007 amperage=1200 capacity=4195 current=908 [21.6%]

but no matter what (even when it got fully charged again), my capacity hasn't gone back to 4252 and is only at 4195..

so does this mean it's bad for your battery to run it down all the way and charge it back up?



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