Severe new bug in firmware Q2D13?

[John Watlington]

That voltage has to be read with DC power and the main battery
removed to be meaningful.   There is a trickle charging circuit in
play if there is any other source of power.

wad

On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Hal Murray wrote:

>
> wmb at laptop.org said:
>> I have been told that the Uruguay machines are supposed to have good
>> battery holders, so my earlier suggestion about coin-cell batteries
>> popping out of the holder might be incorrect.  However, we have also
>> seen a problem where some of the coin-cell batteries are  
>> defective, so
>> it would be worthwhile to open the problem machines and inspect their
>> batteries.  The defective batteries might have visible corrosion.
>
> Even if it looks OK, as long as you have it open, you might as well  
> put a
> meter on it.
>
> Mine reads 3.3V.
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