Yet Another Battery Confusion

Hey all, how u guys doing?
Ok. This has been for a month already. I keep checking coconutBattery and found that
my battery capacity is about 86%, with only 160 load-cycles over a period of 7 months (or 5 months, minus the 2 months its sitting in the Apple Store before i bought it)
Is this normal? I admit that I use the battery heavily on the first 3 months before switching to power plug more often after a friend's advice. But then, the battery capacity was still above 95%
I recorded the slow battery degrading in coconutbattery, Nov 08 it was 97% and Dec 08, 92%
But i didnt expect it to jump down to 86% today. Its been playing round 86 - 88%. Never goes back to at least 90%. What's going on?
I know the rule for replacement is 80% before 300 cycles, looks like i can only hope it goes 80% before that so i can get free battery replacement or can the Apple dudes do anything if i show this to them?
Thanks for the attention and reply, hopefuly
Cheers!

The advice to run your computer more on the AC adapter could be part of the problem. Like humans, the battery can stay healthy only with exercise. This is a good read:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
Especially note the link in the lower right under "AppleCare" that reads. "How to calibrate a battery for best performance."
A slow and linear decline in health is not abnormal; when it plummets from 95 percent to 65 overnight as mine did, that's abnormal. My problem turned out to be a leak. Remove your battery and examine the edges where the two case halves meet. If you see any blue-gray crud that looks like paper maché stuck to the seams, take it in. Mine was replaced under warranty.

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ps1: I purchased the mbp in one of the apple stores in US and I use it in Turkey now.
ps2: I can make lots and lots of conspiracy theories from the fact that I bought my computer in 15th july 2011 and it broke in 19th july 2012

I am sure you also tried resetting PRAM?
My macbook's battery also died suddenly without warning, so it is possible for batteries to die suddenly.
I know that you are looking for a different answer, but battery replacement is probably the only solution to your problem. If you are lucky, it is possible that your battery connector is loose due to vibrations or something like that.
If it was a software problem, your hardware test would not have given you an error.
BY the way, the "date has been reset to pre-2008" error message makes it sound like your CMOS battery is dead. The CMOS battery is pretty small, and cheap. It is different from your main battery.

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Kind Regards
Bernard
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Thanks a million for getting back to me Louie
The ring on the power socket is orange, suggesting that it is charging. However I didn't noticed the 50watts in my System Profiler details for the AC Charger. My Power Supply says that it is a 65w one with the correct model no. for this Powerbook (I think it says A1021 on it but I don't trust my eyesight at this time of night)
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This battery could be knackered but I hardly have used my spare battery and even that won't seem to charge any quicker
I am also pretty certain that this incredibly slow charging is a recent problem, as I've had that power supply for some time (a year maybe) and I am sure that in the past the batteries have charged up at a more normal rate.
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Many thanks as always for taking the trouble to get back to me
Best Regards
Bernard

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columbus new boy wrote:
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