> Give it an hour or three <EG>
Nah. The battery will just run out, and the computer will go to sleep. ;)
> Put a PAIR of those batteries in, in home-rigged sockets so you can
> run all day or all week or whatever, wire one or both sockets backwards,
> and you'll see what I mean <G> Those Hitachi's are the same as the Sony
> NP-F550 and several other such batteries, a little different capacity,
> one GOOD thing about those is that they'll open-circuit if you mistreat
> them, to protect the battery - those are Li-Ion batteries, as you know
> <G> I use the F550's all the time (For my Hitachi laptop & IBM PC110
> palmtop), good battery tech :) Haven't seen the Hitachi's for sale
> locally yet, haven't been looking hard though.
The battery is from our camcorder, and they're available in the local
HiFi-store. :)
> :) Hope so! You have to wire it right, of course. Get local help as
> needed, or ask here.
I think I should know how to do it. :)
> Find a "peak reading ammeter" that has about a 10 Amp upper limit,
> BORROW it, and take a reading. Another way to do this is with a
> (Borrowed is again OK) oscilloscope set to a slow (10 cm/sec) horizontal
> scan, & a pretty small resistor, in series with the battery power (non
> wirewound, say something like 0.1 ohms, 10 watt.) The peak voltage you
> measure across that resistor, divided by the resistance, is your peak
> current during startup. Measure a few times to be sure you catch the
> peak <G>
How common are those peak meters you're talking about?
> I cannot see enough to tell how to do it, can you prop the display up
> with a spring, or pull it up with suspenders or something? (Long day
> here.)
I'll just take a few photos of the display, then. Same adress as usual. :)
> Not for me <G> You've seen smileys like [(:-{)> (Smiley face wearing
> a hat, with moustache & beard), then?
Oh, come on! You know what I mean! People rarely use those kind of smileys.
They're too hard to type. ;D
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Thor Harald Johansen
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