Hi,
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:31 -0500, ext Larry Battraw wrote:
> I would advocate building a dummy battery out of a piece of
> wood/plastic with a small piece of copper clad board (split into three
> pads) to act as the contacts of the battery. You can then run wires
> from those to the real battery, passing it through whatever
> resistor/sensing equipment you want. As soon as you try measuring
> what goes into the DC jack you're then including whatever losses
> incurred by the DC-DC conversion from 5V to whatever used internally,
> as well as issues around having it potentially trying to charge the
> battery at the same time you're measuring. That, and Igor as much as
> said that things could behave differently based on whether it detects
> wall/DC power vs. battery power alone. Honestly, at this point you
> probably could have built a couple rigs for measuring power from the
> battery in all the time that has been spent discussing it. :-)
>
> Larry
>
> On 3/21/06, Frantisek Dufka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well I was not thinking about measuring at the mains plug. I was
> > thinking about measuring at the n770 side (5V?) because it is a bit
> > easier then opening the device and messing with battery pins.
> >
> > Frantisek
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did anybody produce anything?
I was hoping that the discussion would bring some interest to the
fabulous world of power management also amongst other developers ...
--
Cheers,
Igor
Igor Stoppa (Nokia M - OSSO / Tampere)
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