Hi Juanita, To calibrate the battery gauge, you would first fully charge the battery, meaning you would leave the VoiceNote QT plugged in for about three hours, and upon checking the percentage of the battery with FUNCTION with O, then P, it would show 100%. Then, you would make sure you were at the Main Menu by pressing the MENU key, as the Options Menu can be accessed from anywhere in KeySoft, and once the batteries go flat during the calibration process, any unsaved work is lost, and going to the Main Menu saves all work. Next, you would go to the Options Menu with FUNCTION with O, then enter the Support Information Mode with READ with I. You would then press F. A spoken message would repeat itself over and over again until the unit shut itself off due to the fact that the battery had been used until it had 0% power left, and therefore had to be recharged in order for the unit to work again. At this point, you would charge the unit again fully, and the battery would be calibrated. Note that, during the "draining" process (when the spoken message is being repeated), you can press SPACE to hear the time at which the process started and the elapsed time. When you connect the unit to be charged again after the "drain" has completed, you should hear that the adapter is on and that the battery test is complete; to hear the amount of time it took to discharge the battery from its full state, you would press SPACE. If you need to exit the "drain" mode at any time, you can press ESCAPE, and continue later. Although you will get an inaccurate time of the battery to discharge from its full state, the goal of calibration is basically to charge, completely discharge, and then recharge the battery, so it would still be calibrated. Therefore, an alternative to using the "drain" mode is to simply use the unit until the batteries go completely flat, and recharge it. After every charge/discharge cycle, the inaccuracy of the gauge decreases, and at a certain point, if you check, you will be told the gauge is inaccurate; you would enter the Support Information Mode, and press A to find out if it was accurate or inaccurate. If you think the percentage reading of the battery seems inaccurate (you can check it by pressing FUNCTION with O, then P), check if the gauge is accurate, and if not, calibrate it. Also, when the battery is low, at about 10%, the message "Battery is Low" will be spoken every so often, and the "Battery is Critical" warning should appear about two hours or so after the first Low warning because the Critical warning appears at 5%be if the Low warning is closely followed by the Critical warning, this is also a sign you should calibrate. When the Critical warning appears, you should always return to the Main Menu with the MENU key to save all work because any unsaved work will be lost if the batteries go flat (of course, if you plug in the AC adapter when the battery is low or critical, you can continue working because the battery will charge while you use AC power). If the Low or Critical warnings appear, but the gauge capacity reads as a relatively high percentage for those warnings, the gauge may be inaccurate. If the batteries go completely flat while the gauge is still accurate, it may become inaccurate. Usually, the battery should only need to be recalibrated about every two months or so, depending on how many times you've charged it, so just check every couple of months if everything seems to be going normally with the battery to see if the gauge is accurate or inaccurate. Over time, you'll learn to recognize when the behavior of the battery is abnormal. The reason for calibrating is for the gauge to be able to give you an accurate reading when you check the percentage of the battery during a charge/discharge cycle (checking how close the battery is to being flat or being charged). Because the gauge will overestimate the capacity of the battery as the battery gets older, recalibrating allows the gauge to remeasure the battery's capacity.
I'm not quite sure about your second question, but I would say that, to have the SuperDisk drive used with the BrailleNote/VoiceNote products fixed, you should either send it back to your closest PDI office or a dealer which services the BrailleNote family. You might also be able to send it back to its original manufacturer. I'm not sure whether any other companies or simply a place which services electronics and/or computers could fix it. Since I don't own a SuperDisk drive for the BN, perhaps those people who do, because I know there are some on this list, and who have had to send it in for repair can tell you what they've done. HTH, Maria >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Juanita collazo I." <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] (no subject) >I have a question for each of you. How do you recalibrate the battery on >a voice note qt if I do get one? My other question to the people on this >list is How do I go about getting the superdisc fixed? Thanks. Juanita >Collazo >________________________________________________________________ >Get your name as your email address. >Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more >Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today! >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
