OT: Weird Laptop Battery Problem

[jim]

> I have seen UPS's that if drained and left will no longer power on.  
> Trickle Charging the batteries for a minute and then re-installing in 
> the UPS will revive the UPS.  I have only seen this on cheap ULTRA 
> (Powercom) UPS's.  Never an APC.
> 
> It's as if the charging circuitry needs some small amount of juice from 
> the battery to engage.  Weird, but I've had it happen 3 or 4 times now.
> 
> This of course has nothing to do with Lithium-ion batteries in laptops.
> Sounds like a bad battery to me.

Would anyone have a recommendation for where to buy laptop replacement
batteries in TO.
Thanks,
Jim

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