[OLPC New Zealand] Bung XO-1 battery

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:21 +1200, Brenda Wallace wrote:
> Hi Andrew - are you still @ catalyst?

Yup.

> 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?

Sure, I can mind them.  But I won't be able to make the Saturday morning
testing sessions if they're still running at the Southern Cross.

Cheers!

> 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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> >
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> 

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