Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery?

From	"~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery?
Date	2015-01-13 12:18 +1300
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Once upon a time on usenet mike wrote:
[total snip]
> Are we having fun yet?

Thanks Mike. I've copied that to notepad and saved it for when I have a bit 
of time to play with.

I have a couple of these too 
http://www.dx.com/p/mp1405-5v-1a-lithium-battery-charging-board-blue-black-219454#.VLRT1MlZqUc 
and used one for re-powering a mini rotary tool I got cheap that used 3x 
small NiCad cells in shrink-wrap, the total size of which was similar to a 
single 18650 but had little 'power' and didn't hold much charge. I bought a 
new solder-tab Panasonic cell for that job as I didn't know how good my 
slavaged cells were and it's hard to open up the modded tool....

However it doesn't seem to like running a motor from the 'out' pads - maybe 
it's something to do with the brushes and how it works? I tried three of 
these PCBs for the job and they all didn't work right. In the end I had to 
wire a small momentary contact switch between the B+ and OUT+ pads to start 
the motor. Once it's started it runs fine from the 'OUT' contacts. <shrug>

As you can probably tell I only have basic knowledge (but try hard to not 
take risks - I'm very aware of the inherant dangers with Li-Ion tech and the 
potential for 'thermal runaway').

Cheers,
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a 
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)

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Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? andymhancock@gmail.com - 2014-12-30 11:53 -0800
  Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2014-12-31 13:35 +1300
    Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? andymhancock@gmail.com - 2014-12-31 11:06 -0800
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      Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2015-01-01 12:29 +1300
    Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2014-12-31 12:05 -0800
      Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2015-01-01 12:55 +1300
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          Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2015-01-02 14:16 +1300
            Re: Should I completely discharge my laptop battery? andymhancock@gmail.com - 2015-01-01 18:11 -0800
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