Re: portables pageant
by wear i was referring to how much of the original capacity the battery can still hold... that hw monitor was reding was calculated from the capacity reading... i did the math, my wear was <1%, so it rounded down. to settle it, i will give a screen shot of my old battery:
so the sensor does exist.
for the new one:
well, it gets the same battery life as models with the same battery did new.
my old battery did have screwball things with the battery life meter. (it would say 0% for 10-20 min). so some $$$ maker chip may have been in it. however, the fact the wear gauge in the battery went from 4 to 5 and back to four and now to 5 lights tells me it is not a simple cycle counter... it really was measuring how much the cells were reading. my guess was a fishy % of charge gauge but a real wear gauge.
i read in a thread around here that refurbing your own batteries only saves $5 off a new battery... so you would have paid out the a** had i refurbed the old one. that, and now I have 2 batteries I can use... I may buy another battery from that lot since this one seems to be doing nicely.
one last thing:
my original point to stevo was that the particular batch I bought from produced a good battery, and since it was a massive lot that it came from, that it may be worth buying into. I know NOS batteries are a slight gamble... had it been an older model, then i might have considered refurbing my existing battery. I should have been more clear in my original post...
by wear i was referring to how much of the original capacity the battery can still hold... that hw monitor was reding was calculated from the capacity reading... i did the math, my wear was <1%, so it rounded down. to settle it, i will give a screen shot of my old battery:
so the sensor does exist.
for the new one:
well, it gets the same battery life as models with the same battery did new.
my old battery did have screwball things with the battery life meter. (it would say 0% for 10-20 min). so some $$$ maker chip may have been in it. however, the fact the wear gauge in the battery went from 4 to 5 and back to four and now to 5 lights tells me it is not a simple cycle counter... it really was measuring how much the cells were reading. my guess was a fishy % of charge gauge but a real wear gauge.
i read in a thread around here that refurbing your own batteries only saves $5 off a new battery... so you would have paid out the a** had i refurbed the old one. that, and now I have 2 batteries I can use... I may buy another battery from that lot since this one seems to be doing nicely.
one last thing:
my original point to stevo was that the particular batch I bought from produced a good battery, and since it was a massive lot that it came from, that it may be worth buying into. I know NOS batteries are a slight gamble... had it been an older model, then i might have considered refurbing my existing battery. I should have been more clear in my original post...
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