On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:38:29 -0800, John Robertson <
sp...@flippers.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I would appreciate comments from anyone who has adopted
>> a similar charging strategy.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>I leave all my laptops plugged in when in use and tend to get batteries
>that last five or more years. Obviously they are used from time to time
>on batteries, but we mostly use these in our shop as semi-desktop
>machines that are portable. I take mine home every night for example,
>the rest are left wherever the staff last used them (cable locks).
>
>John :-#)#
>
I used to leave my Thinkpad T43 plugged in all the time. I used the
computer maybe twice a month. I had used it in my car and it was working
fine. I got home, plugged it in, and a gr days later I turned it on. The
computer refused to turn on both with battery and AC power. The power
module was working. I replaced the coin cell in the computer, it still
did not turn on. I tested the hard drive in another computer, that was
fine.
I thought about it, and recall we had a bad lightning storm on between
the last time I used the computer and the time it refused to start.
Apparently lightning fryed the motherboard.
I'm not equipped to repair this sort of thing, and being an older
computer, I simply bought an identical model on ebay for about $40.
I was able to use the power converter, battery, hard drive, and CD drive
from the old computer in the new one. I did have to reinstall Windows XP
though. Swapping the old HDD simply would not boot. I was told that has
soemthing to do with the activation for XP. But I did not lose any data,
all of that was fine on the old HDD, I just had to copy it to a flash
drive (using another computer), and put it on the new laptop.
I wont be leaving my laptops plugged in all the time anymore. Especially
during the seasons when we have electrical storms.