Substitute batteries

[Joel Newkirk]

My guess is that it incorporates some constants that depend on the actual
battery pack.  Note that I don't actually KNOW that it's in the battery,
but previous ML posts by folks at Openmoko refer to it as 'in the battery',
and with a bl-5c installed almost all battery-related entries in sysfs are
unpopulated.

j

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:13:00 -0400, "Charles Pax" <charles.pax at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM, <freerunner at newkirk.us> wrote:
> 
>> OK, I have a few Nokia batteries laying around, BL-5c and BL-6c, and
>> desktop chargers.  They power the Freerunner fine, and seem to charge
> when
>> they're in the FR plugged in.  But the Freerunner doesn't know what to
> do
>> with them apart from that, presumably since they lack the Openmoko
> coulomb
>> counter circuit.
> 
> 
> The coulomb counter circuitry is in the battery? Why isn't this on the
> board
> itself?
> 
> -Charles