I'd say you got a false message. Mine does that often so I exit out of
that and do another percentage command and I usually get my reading
properly. I often bring my battery down to ten percent when I use my unit
so I often hear battery low. If you hear that, don't mess around any
further! Get out of what you are doing and plug it in. Your unit should
be up to full charge in two hours or so. Sometimes it may take longer than
that. If after two hours, it is 91 percent (or any percentage below a
hundred percent, unplug the AC adapter and plug it back in again. Wait
till it reaches a hundred percent. I doubt you will need to recalibrate
all that often. Just use the heck out of your unit and charge again and
you should be fine for the most part.
Jim Aldrich At 06:46 PM 11/09/2005 , you wrote:
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
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