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Yousuf Khan typed:
On 18/08/2011 1:59 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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BillW50 wrote:

Yup, I have seen those too. And those of us, who fly a
lot with our laptops... also discovered that most of
the time the aircraft only supplies so much power per
outlet and that is it. And laptops are pretty good
about adjusting for a lower wattage supply. And what
they generally do is to disable battery charging but
the rest of the laptop works fine otherwise. That is another thing to
check once you know the
problem isn't the battery. Remember I offered to send
you a battery to check your computer with. Anyway your
AC power supply could also not put out all of the
amperage that it used too. In that case, the laptop
will refuse to charge the battery, but work fine
otherwise.

Oh yeah Yousuf, not only could I send you a battery to
test, but I also have AC power supplies too that I could
send for you for testing. You could email me by changing
KOM to COM if you are interested.

Well, I ended up ordering a new battery online, and it
came in today. I put it in, and it's being successfully
charged up. So my problem is solved. Just wondering what
caused the previous battery to fail in the way that it
did?
Yousuf Khan

Roll of the dice; not unusual. Look up how batteres work. f'ups set to stop
bombardment of non-relevant groups.

HTH,

Twayne`