Laptop battery useage

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:21, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > From: "Ronnie Gauthier" <ronnieg at chartermi.net>
> >
> > "Michael Hipp" <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> > > Generally on Nicad and NiMH batteries it is best to do a full discharge
> > > once and a while. Helps prevent that so-called "memory effect".
> >
> > Have you ever seen a battery take a memory set outside of an industrial
> > setting?
>
> Yes. Frequently. Almost predictably. The old Nicads were especially bad
> about this, NiMH seems quite a bit more forgiving.
>

This report says they couldn't reproduce a memory effect in a test.

http://www.repairfaq.org/ELE/F_NiCd_Memory.html



This report says memory effect is a big problem....

http://www.zbattery.com/memoryeffect.html



Take your pick.  :-)