On 12.02.2008 18:55, ron minnich wrote:
On Feb 12, 2008 8:44 AM, bari bari@onelabs.com wrote:
Last time I checked all Lithium batteries had protection circuitry built into the pack to prevent any runaway conditions in the laptop charging circuits. The protection circuits override anything the laptop can throw at it short of a lightning bolt or exploding hard drives.
Yeah, that was the expected case. I don't know what the Intel person was claiming, but I hope it is wrong. Well, it is wrong :-)
If you control the embedded controller in charge of charging (sorry about the puns), you probably can fry a battery to the point where it starts burning. IIRC the OLPC EC code once had such problems. Then again, having a chipset spec will not help you at all when you try to mess with the EC.
Regards, Carl-Daniel