[Ham-Mac] Using external battery to power a PowerBooky

[Phil Stripling]

Dick Rucker [rrucker@bellatlantic.net] wrote:
>SNIP< 
> I see no way to determine if the battery is being charged except to leave an
> external power source plugged in for a while and see how the %charge reading
> changes.  Two cases:
> 
> 1.  I did that for about 20 minutes with the computer in sleep and my gel
> cells providing external power; the result was no change in the %charge.
> 
> 2.  When I did the same thing with the external power adapter, the %charge
> increased to 52%.
> 
> Looks to me like the computer battery does not want to accept a reasonable
> charging current from my gel cells.

Wow, looks conclusive to me. Thanks for taking to time to make that
experiment. My assumption then is that the plug is mis-wired?
-- 
Phil Stripling
The Civilized Explorer
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