BTW, all the battery links I've looked at in this thread have been for basic NiMH cells, but word from a Logitech engineer is that the official battery pack uses Low Self-Discharge NiMH cells. From what I understand about NiMH (also having used them casually for years), you want LSD cells if you're going to leave your Radio unplugged, or even plugged in but "fully off" (in which case the batteries aren't being charged) for weeks or months at a time, so the combination of self-discharge and the very slight power drain of the microcontroller won't drain your batteries so low that they can't be revived. Even with LSD cells, you'll want to avoid leaving your Radio "off" for many months at a time, but using LSD cells would buy you an extra margin of safety.
I've filed an enhancement request to make Radio a bit more intelligent about keeping batteries from going flat if it's left "off" but plugged in, but I don't know if/when that enhancement might be added. Since Logitech is using LSD cells, Radio probably doesn't need to be turned on as often as they've suggested, so there probably aren't as many customers at risk of dead batteries as I first feared. https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15782 -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
