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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 Mitchell_Yee@jud.ca.gov wrote: > My company finally bought me two NiMH batteries for my 701C > after hearing my curse my old NiCad battery one too many times. > > Is there any care and feeding instructions for NiMH batteries that > might differ from the NiCads? IBM techies have mentioned > that the batteries are not supposed to require any specialized > handling, including deep discharge or trickle re-charge. I'd The 701's NiMH batteries really seem to work. I've got two. One is left in the machine all the time, frequently discharged 10%-20% before recharging. It's held up just fine since January. The other sits on a shelf, used maybe once a month for trips. It sits at 100% charge (IBM's recommendation), and it's always been 99% or 100% when I plug it in, even after a month of non-use. A very pleasant change from my 750 whose batteries died within a month of frequent partial charging, and lost 2-3% of its charge every day in storage. I was told IBM recommends *against* discharging the 701's NiMHs completely. If you do this, the estimated time remaining at 100% drops by about 4 minutes. I don't know if this is real, although I suspect it is since the battery isn't suppposed to have any writeable electronics inside it. -- John H. Kim "I stop for red traffic lights" -- bumper sticker jokim@mit.edu commissioned by the City of Boston as part of a MIT Sea Grant campaign to shed its reputation for bad drivers.