[geeks] Pointers for iPod battery (3rd Gen)

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Thu Jul 16 09:08:16 CDT 2009


Lionel Peterson wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>  
> wrote:
>> I just bought a new battery for my Canon digital camera that claims
>> almost double the capacity of an original Canon BP511.  Granted the
>> battery's only been through one or two charge cycles, but so far I  
>> have
>> not seen evidence of the increased capacity.
> 
> Might your camera need to be 'trained' to use the full capacity of the  
> new battery? I remember some laptops required you to drain to "0" then  
> charge fully and drain again before they 'knew' about the capacity of  
> the new battery...

I don't know of any way to "train" it.  But I do recall reading that
some lithium-ion batteries require a couple of charge/discharge cycles
to reach full capacity.


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