Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
This was clearly my fault, a bit promoted by the wrong pictures in the manual of the VARTA Digital USB Charger: the pictures show the LED of each cell 'on' when it is full, while the manual stated correctly that the LED of each cell is on while charging and blinking on full; in short: the cells have been nearly empty :-) I've fully charged now the four AA cells of 2700 mAh and USB-out is working as it should; the battery.py shows 1000 mA charging rate; this pack of 4 cells each 2700 mAh give you around 10,000 mAh I will do more tests and update the Wiki after this about this charger; matthias Thanks for good news. Keep going. -- Ing. Radek Bartoň Faculty of Information Technology Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Brno University of Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://blackhex.no-ip.org Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 15:09, Radek Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've fully charged now the four AA cells of 2700 mAh and USB-out is working as it should; the battery.py shows 1000 mA charging rate; this pack of 4 cells each 2700 mAh give you around 10,000 mAh no, it would be 4*2700 mAH for 1,2V, but here you have still 2700mAh but for 4*1,2V=4,8V ... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
El día Monday, November 03, 2008 a las 08:59:24PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Wednesday, October 15, 2008 a las 08:10:34PM +0200, Radek Barto?? escribió: Hello list. I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain=www.en.varta-consumer.com so I'm sharing it with you. For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). Hello, I've bought today evening this charger, mainly with the idea to charge AA cells to put them later into the MintyBoost; well, the paperware of the item claims that in can charge gadgets via the USB-out function, i.e. you put 2-4 charged cells into the device, connect it with the cable of our FR press the button 'USB out' and you put the power of the cells into the gadget, into the FR in our case; but it does not work; after pressing the button 'USB out' the green LED comes on for some seconds, the FR shows 'loading' but then it crashes: LED goes off, FR falls back to its own battery :-( ... This was clearly my fault, a bit promoted by the wrong pictures in the manual of the VARTA Digital USB Charger: the pictures show the LED of each cell 'on' when it is full, while the manual stated correctly that the LED of each cell is on while charging and blinking on full; in short: the cells have been nearly empty :-) I've fully charged now the four AA cells of 2700 mAh and USB-out is working as it should; the battery.py shows 1000 mA charging rate; this pack of 4 cells each 2700 mAh give you around 10,000 mAh I will do more tests and update the Wiki after this about this charger; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
El día Wednesday, October 15, 2008 a las 08:10:34PM +0200, Radek Barto?? escribió: Hello list. I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain=www.en.varta-consumer.com so I'm sharing it with you. For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). Hello, I've bought today evening this charger, mainly with the idea to charge AA cells to put them later into the MintyBoost; well, the paperware of the item claims that in can charge gadgets via the USB-out function, i.e. you put 2-4 charged cells into the device, connect it with the cable of our FR press the button 'USB out' and you put the power of the cells into the gadget, into the FR in our case; but it does not work; after pressing the button 'USB out' the green LED comes on for some seconds, the FR shows 'loading' but then it crashes: LED goes off, FR falls back to its own battery :-( This is with the 2700 mAh cells shipped with the VARTA Digital USB Charger; I've tested charged 2600 cells (stolen from my wife's cam); they work for a while, let's say five minutes and then the same picture as with the 2700 cells; I will check tomorrow with some of my colleagues if they have a clue what could be the reason... Maybe the FR draws to much power in the VARTA Digital USB Charger thinks in short-cut; any ideas? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
VARTA Digital USB Charger
I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain=www.en.varta-consumer.com For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). Well, when it is available someone test try it and add it to: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_USB_charger_specifications_and_compatibility_list Minh -- Minh HA DUONG, Chargé de Recherche, CNRS CIRED, Centre International de Recherches sur l'Environnement et le Développement http://minh.haduong.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
On Thursday 16 of October 2008 09:36:58 Minh Ha Duong wrote: I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain =www.en.varta-consumer.com For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). Well, when it is available someone test try it and add it to: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_USB_charger_specifications_and_compatibil ity_list Minh I'm not sure if this is the same model http://www.agen.cz/produkt/57387/VARTA-Professional-Charger-nabijecka-USB-2xAAA1000-2xAA2700_ph.htm . But if it is, it's currently available in my country. But the price is little more that I want pay for it (cca 38€). -- Ing. Radek Bartoň Faculty of Information Technology Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Brno University of Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://blackhex.no-ip.org Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
2008/10/16 Radek Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain=www.en.varta-consumer.com so I'm sharing it with you. For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). ah, this makes me laugh 'digital USB charger' - do they have an analogue one, as well? i was glad, however, to see that it can supply 'fresh energy' to my device - that stale stuff i use at the moment just doesn't cut it i love marketing guff ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
VARTA Digital USB Charger
Hello list. I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain=www.en.varta-consumer.com so I'm sharing it with you. For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). -- Ing. Radek Bartoň Faculty of Information Technology Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Brno University of Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://blackhex.no-ip.org Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: VARTA Digital USB Charger
Looks similar to the DIYer mintyboost' project: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/ Radek Bartoň wrote: Hello list. I've just read an article about new VARTA Digital USB Charger http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/content.php?path=/1204126618.htmldomain=www.en.varta-consumer.com so I'm sharing it with you. For our purposes it's really great that it can charge our precious Neo from inserted AA or AAA accumulators, power point or car socket :-). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
