Would it be technically possible to have a "fast or rapid" discharge
feature for when the battery needs recalibrating? I've also gotten that
message that the battery neeeds recalibrating, but so far I've ignored
it because I don't want to be without the unit for the hours and hours
it takes.
Jean
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From: "Peggy Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] mPower calibration
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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