As Dan Lukes wrote:
> Three or four cycles of charging / depth depleting may recalibrate
> the internals and reported values may become more appropriate.
I wonder whether I'll better do that outside the computer though.
After all, the Coulomb counter in the battery does not care much
whether it is attached to a computer querying it or not.
> You should not stop the discharging prematurely - it affect the
> results.
I did want to reboot it into normal operation in order to allow the
nightly backup to run. I simply ran out of time waiting for the
battery to drain completely. Anyway, at a voltage level of < 9.0 V,
it wouldn't have lasted for another quarter of an hour. (Worst case
cutoff level for a LiIon cell is around 2.7 V.)
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