battery trouble

[Dan Burcaw]

Were you running in plugged in mode a lot? I know that batteries can
start to degrade after long periods this... they really need to drain
and recharge to last a long time.

-Dan

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:24, Beartooth wrote:
> 	I got this G3 ibook from terrasoft in August, and promptly went
> out and got a second battery. One battery shows none of the four LEDs
> lit, and still operates normally. The other shows one little green LED
> lit (the innermost one when it's in the ibook) and does not. When it's
> in, the machine won't even turn on; but it will run with it in and the
> transformer supplying power from the wall.
> 
> 	I have run 2.3 as much of the time as possible, usually 24/7 for 
> weeks at a time in recent months. (At first, I used to shut down and 
> disconnect everything nightly.)
> 
> 	But I ran OSX 10.1.5 for three weeks in January, and am running
> it again now, because I can't seem to make 2.3 connect at all when I'm
> stuck with dialup only.And I ran it for a week or two in another house
> till an apple-fancying friend helped me long distance to figure out how
> to make it use DSL through a linksys router.
> 
> 	Surely no battery kept recharged or recharging should die so 
> soon! What should I do?