Hi, all. This morning when I checked my battery status after
exercising with the stopwatch, I got the message that the status
couldn't be given because the battery needed calibrating. I noticed
that it was four weeks to the day since I got my mPower, so I'm
wondering if the unit is programmed to say it needs calibrating every
four weeks. Anyway, I decided to calibrate it while I was at
work. I started the initial charge at around 7:36 this morning, and
when I got home about 5:15, it was merrily chattering away, but not
saying anything about battery low or battery critical, which didn't
surprise me. My old BN would take about 10 hours to discharge, so I
figured the mPower would be about the same, if not a little
longer. It was still chattering when I went to eat dinner, and when
I came back in here a couple minutes ago, it was quiet. I hit the
space bar, and it said the discharge process took 9 hours and 26
minutes. The display said "battery is low". So my impression is
that when the mPower says "battery is low", it means "the battery is
on its last gasp and needs to be charged yesterday". <grin> So I'm
wondering a couple things: Is it a bad sign that my unit stopped
talking after only 9 hours and 26 minutes? In a way I'm delighted,
as I didn't want to hear it chattering all evening, and hopefully
it'll charge quickly and I can use it. I'm also wondering if I
should turn it off now that it's recharging, or if I should wait
until it tells me it's all charged. I guess I'll find out.
So those are my calibration thoughts and experiences.
Oh yeah; one thing I noticed after it first told me it needed
calibrating, was that the next time I turned it on, it gave me a
percentage when I checked status. Is the need-for-calibration
message supposed to be intermittent, or was it possibly a false message?
Peggy
