On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>>Similar laptop here, and 18V power adapter. However the
>>internal battery is only 10-ish or so volts.
>
>The battery in mine is a 14.4V Li-Ion unit. It is a Dell Latitude XPi CD. I
>suspect it needs a good 12V to drive the CD motor.

No but the backlight almost certainly won't run on voltages below 12V.

Peter

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