[OLPC New Zealand] Bung XO-1 battery

[Brenda Wallace]

Hi Andrew - are you still @ catalyst?

Alastair mentioned he has some XOs, and he's about to leave the
country. Could you perhaps speak to him and take care of them for us
for a while?

On 20 June 2012 09:01, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:
> 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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