Well the battery life on the Bn mpower doesn't seem to be any shorter than
normal as far as I can see.
I wish they would do away with this whole calibration business altogether.
What they are apparently doing in ks 7.2 is a start but they should simply
use a different battery charging system or have a quick discharge button
like a reset button which would cut down on the length of time it takes to
manually discharge the battery.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Mary /Ellen Earls
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From: "Carol Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Battery query
Mary,
I had a similar senario with ours. It was about six months in before
suddenly, one day, we heard that wonderful announcement that the battery
was accurate! It only lasted a couple of months though and then we had to
recalibrate. We now are told it's accurate but we get rather a short life
and it's soon going in for a replacement. (BTW, this will be our third
battery since we had the mPower. We never did get the first working
properly . . ..)
Hopefully these issues will be behind us once we get that next battery and
with the changes in hardware etc.
Just to tell you you're not alone with strange behaviour . . ..
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Carol
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From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Battery query
Jonathan, I have something totally weird with my Braille Note Mpower
transplant.
I'm running ks 7.0. Anyway At the end of July, I got the message that the
battery was not critical and could not give an accurate indication of its
status. Well, I let it run down and recharged and it still said this. I
calibrated the battery and _still I was getting this message. At the time
I pressed the R. per the instructions in the manual.
After still getting the message that the machine was not able to give a
percentage of accuracy, I again recalibrated the battery using the letter
G. and let the ol boy chatter for something like 22 hours.
Still I got the message so called tech support and they took my serial
number and phone number down and said someone would call me. I asked if I
could still run the machine and they said yes. Well I ran it until the
battery ran flat, plugged it in and did this for a couple of cycle. Ok
here is the clincher. After about the third or fourth time of running
down the battery and recharging I decided a couple of weeks ago to check
the battery status. It read power level 75% and when I checked the
accuracy the Braille Note said "gauge is accurate." I am beginning to
think this Braille Note has gremlins in it. In April we had a database in
the dictionary which caused the Braille Display to have a coronary and
now this.
This is one time I am glad I still haven't heard from Humanware because I
think they would be wasting their time with this machine.
Mary Ellen Earls
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Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Battery query
Hi Chris,
Prior to 7.2 when you checked the power status you were sometimes told
that the battery gauge needed recalibrating and was too inaccurate to
give
a percentage. In this situation it now gives you a percentage and
recommends that you "condition" the battery. To condition the battery
you
simply charge it fully, use the mPower on battery power until the
"Battery
critical" message is displayed, and then fully charge it again.
Conditioning the battery when reminded ensures that the battery achieves
its maximum life and keeps the battery gauge calibrated so that you are
given an accurate percentage when checking the power status.
Hope that helps
Best regards
Jonathan
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Hi all,
I've just been reading the Keysoft 7.2 readme, and it mentioned that
there
are changes to the information regarding the battery. Please tell me
what
are these changes? I'm getting an MPower soon, so I'm anxious to know. I
tried to look for the 7.2 user guide, but couldn't find it. Thanks for
any
help.
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