On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:21 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Charles Robinson > > >> On May 5, 2012, at 4:30, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> Ah! I know it well. There's an easy fix, John: you program off the >>> idle/sleep timer. >>> >>> Hold the Light button for 2-3 seconds until you see SL, press Mode >>> once to get PH on the display, press the S button to change the digit >>> from 1 to 2. In PH mode 2 it *never* sleeps. It will run until it >>> exhausts the battery. >>> >> I was going to bitch that this wasn't covered in the manual. But it is. >> :-( >> >> Thanks for the pointer! >> >> -Charles > > > I'd never thought of attacking the problem of it reverting to power on > default settings every time it went to sleep from the point of disabling the > sleep timer. I'd really prefer for it to just retain my settings until I'm > finished using it and turn the power switch off.
Hey, ya do what ya have ta do. The 540's behaviour isn't likely to change, so yours has to. :-) And disabling the auto sleep doesn't seem to have any downsides. As I mentioned, I ran two of these suckers for over four straight hours on fully charged Energizers (2450 mAh) and Duracells (2000 mAh). I did a battery change on one after 3.5 hours. If they hadn't been getting flashed at full power every 10-15 seconds they'd have lasted even longer. I won't ever bother re-enabling the sleep mode timer--it's just a pain in the ass. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
