On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 13, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
>
> Today when I plugged the camera into the cord (which I leave plugged in) I
>> got a Low Power Warning.
>>
>
> Why is this?
>>
>
> Most cameras not only transfer data but also recharge the battery via USB.
>
> What could have changed?
>>
>
> The battery is lower on charge, and is drawing more amperage than before.
> The limit is 500mA total per USB port unless you have an external USB hub
> with its own power supply. I've seen this message before using a USB memory
> stick to a keyboard port. Since the USB memory stick doesn't draw
> significant power, this might be an error specific to keyboard ports that
> you can safely ignore, at least that's what I did.
>
> This camera uses 3 AAA batteries and I have regular old alkaline cells in
it .
And, so as not to double post
I did move it to a powered 4 port USB hub.
It is connected but this time it didn't trigger Image Capture (asking me
what I wanted to DL)
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