[OLPC New Zealand] Bung XO-1 battery

Andrew Ruthven andrew at etc.gen.nz
Tue Jun 19 17:01:30 EDT 2012


Hi Tabitha,

A spare battery would be great thank you.  If it turns out to not hold a
charge, then I could buy one.  It is also possible the that XO-1 battery
I have is dud after sitting unused for the past 4ish years.

Cheers!

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 22:23 +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> Hi Andrew
> 
> We can help you out with a battery if you want another one. We have a
> few dead laptops with good (but used) batteries.
> Otherwise, two places to order new batteries -
> http://ilovemyxo.wordpress.com/ and store.laptop.org.au (I have a log
> in to AU site if you want to order from them).
> 
> Kind regards
> Tabitha Roder
> eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer
> Cell +64 21 482229
> tabitha at tabitha.net.nz
> http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/
> Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010
> 
> 
> On 18 June 2012 09:26, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I have a XO-1 with battery that has gone bad, it looks like the 1-wire
> > system in it has become confused.  The laptop (including batman) just
> > say "No battery", but it'll happily run off it.
> >
> > An XO-1.75B1 doesn't recognise the battery either.  Interestingly, the
> > XO-1 doesn't see the battery out of the XO-1.75 either.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this? I seems like it is possible the 1-wire chip has
> > become confused and is now in high-speed mode when it should be
> > low-speed.  Anyone have experience in changing the setting?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Ruthven
> > Wellington, New Zealand
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> 

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Andrew Ruthven
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