The smart batteries that I have seen never completely turned off; they always had a little "watchdog" timer running which would periodically wake up the rest of the battery's brains and do some periodic housekeeping and/or internal testing.
>From the battery's point of view, it had three operational modes; charging in a charger, discharging in a user device, and transport / storage (where it sort of hung out maintaining the capability to maintain the capability). Ed Price El Cajon, CA USA -----Original Message----- From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] "Smart" Batteries In message <cc5bd66d.2b63c%[email protected]>, dated Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Ken Javor <[email protected]> writes: >Admittedly beyond my area of expertise discussing what ?intrinsic >function? means in a legalistic sense, It is vague, but here it means that the smart battery by itself isn't usable for anything except a paperweight. It only acts as a battery when it's inside a portable computer or the like that can whisper the requisite magic words into its connector. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Instead of saying that the government is doing too little, too late or too much, too early, say they've got is exactly right, thus throwing them into total confusion. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK > - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
