![]() In his off time, he enjoys building and flying R/C aircraft (and recently, boats), cycling and (despite his age) participating in watersports activities. ![]() When he is not in the lab formulating polymer products for the electronics industry, he wears the hat of “data acquisition guru” for the R&D department. Lee Kresge is a Research Chemist working for the Indium Corporation. Before documenting what Lee found from his detailed (and creative) analysis, however, I’ll begin by telling you a bit about both Lee and his company, in his own words (lightly edited by yours truly for grammar, clarity, etc.). Lee even picked up the one-way shipping tab! I was happy to take him up on his generous offer, the results of which (complete with photos) I’ll detail in this post. If your wife’s MBP battery is destined for nowhere other than the trash can (or, recycling), I could take a look at it for you if you could get it to me. And shortly thereafter, I received an email from research chemist (and off-hours radio-controlled airplane-and-boat enthusiast) Lee Kresge of Indium Corporation: This behavior wasn’t something I’d encountered before, so I reached out to the readership for root-cause suggestions. When the battery full-charge percentage dropped to 90%, the system would abruptly shut down. Last November, I documented my troubles with a replacement battery I’d installed in my wife’s mid-2010 model 15″ MacBook Pro laptop earlier that year.
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