HP 9000 800/G40 battery?/cable

From: Bob Brown <bbrown_at_harper.cc.il.us>
Date: Fri Feb 1 12:19:23 2002

Possibly due to some sort of error in the battery or the charger.
My guess would be that the battery is too old to hold it's charge long...
the other thing I don't recall is what the length of time was that
this battery was spec'ed to hold the memory for.

-Bob

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Brown [mailto:bbrown_at_harper.cc.il.us]
>
> > The batteries are supposed to keep ram intact for a SHORT duration
> > power failure...20 seconds might be longer than they would
> > last..especaially since
> > they are probably 10 year old batteries.
>
> > It's definetly NOT a full ups system.
>
>Ok, when I turn the system on afterwards, all lights -- including the
>battery charging light -- flash. I've assumed that this is just a
>test. In that case, shouldn't the batteries need recharged, and the
>battery light stay on for a while after this? It does not.
>
>Chris
>
>
>Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
>Amdocs - Champaign, IL
>
>/usr/bin/perl -e '
>print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
>'
>

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