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    6400 Battery - light ?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by stormies, Apr 18, 2006.

  1. stormies

    stormies Notebook Guru

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    Hi there everyone

    Wondering if anyone can shed some light - looking at the battery I notice that there is a indicator of some sort with 5 round "displays".

    Is this suppose to light up when charging?

    It appears that it does not do anything!

    Stormies
     
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  2. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    push the button. the number of lights corresponds to the current charge.
     
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  3. stormies

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    Right right - push harder volla !

    Thanks
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    stormies, Apr 18, 2006
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    lol, yes... In fact they are diagnostics leds. You can verify that you have a bad battery by pressing that button... If you get three lights not consecutive, that means that the battery is deffective... If they are consecutive as drumfu mentioned then it shows the amount of charge you have on the battery.
     
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    sounds good - thanks for the tip - consecutive lights is what you want :)

    Thanks
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    stormies, Apr 18, 2006
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