Pismo battery : amazing

  1. The situation is very amazing .......
    While panther's menu bar shows 2h30 left and X-Battery 85% charge the pismo dives in deep sleep making it impossible to retrieve to an awaken state .... so I have to put the adapter again and it "charges" the battery in less than 10 minutes :(

    I really don't know what is the right diagnostic to this

    Jo

  2. Go get my battery script from < http://www.mitt-eget.com/software/macosx/ > and run the script from a terminal window. You will see some output close to this, but the numbers will be different.

    Battery 1
    Battery: battery installed, above warning level
    Charger: charger connected, not charging
    UPS: UPS not installed
    Voltage: 12.596V
    Current: 1.200A (approx 3:27)
    Capacity: 4.149Ah of 4.149Ah (100.0%)

    Run the script a couple of times from when the battery is "fully charged" until the Pismo goes to sleep. Post the result here and hopefully someone here can understand what is happening with your battery/power controller.

    Göran Larsson http://www.mitt-eget.com/

  3. On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:22:17 -0800, Goran Larsson wrote
    (in message <Hr6r55.6vy@approve.se>):

    http://www.mitt-eget.com/software/macosx/

    For those of us who don't know a bin from a bat, could you give some step-by-step instructions for installing this and running it? I've downloaded it and read the instructions, but can't make heads or tales.

    Thanks,

    DaveC
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  4. Then you *haven't* read the instructions, because he tells you very clearly what to do. Drag "battery" into your home folder, then start up the Terminal and say the stuff he says to say:

    sudo cp battery /usr/bin/.
    sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/battery
    rehash

    Then run it according to his usage instructions:

    battery

    And so forth. If he told you more about what to do he'd be telling you how to plug in the computer and blow your nose. m.

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