Lisa, If you exit the Battery Drain mode to check the battery status, the discharge time won't be accurate. However, calibrating the battery gauge means discharging it from its fully charged state and then re-charging it in order for your gauge to adjust to the reduced capacity of the battery over time and report accurate results as opposed to overestimating the battery's capacity. Yes, you're supposed to run it until it freezes, but this is not hibernate mode. Hibernate mode is the BN quote-unquote "shutting itself off" (draws the same amount of battery as would be drawn if the unit were switched off) after 10 minutes of inactivity, and it is ended by pressing any key, although it's recommended that it be ended by pressing [BACKSPACE with ENTER], [CONTROL key]. If your BN is in Battery Drain Mode, it is constantly running (either the Braille display is moving or the speech is speaking), so it will not go into Hibernate Mode. This means you can charge your battery overnight, and you don't have to keep monitoring it. Just make sure you're at the Main Menu upon receiving the warnings of "Battery is Critical" to prevent open work from being lost when the unit freezes. Also, even though the discharge time is inaccurate, you still would have run down from full state and then re-charged the BN without it entering into Hibernate mode, which will give you an accurate gauge reading. HTH.
Maria >----- Original Message ----- >From: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:49:52 +1000 >Subject: [Braillenote] bqtery calibration >Hello Listers, >I am a little confused. I posted a few days ago about not being able to check >the percentage when calibrating the battery. Then I think it was Jonathan >posted saying that I could check the percentage and it wouldn't affect the >battery calibration. This confuses me because if you check the percentage it >throws off the time the battery is calibrating and you have to tell it to go >back into one of the drain modes. >Also someone said something about it would be okay if it didn't enter the >hibernate mode. Isn't that what the BN is supposed to do is to drain itself >until it freezes? Are we expected to monitor the BN while it is calibrating to >see the instant it freezes and then plug in the adapter? If I'm supposed I >will do that I just wasn't sure. If the BN isn't plugged into the ACCORDING >adapter right away does something happen to it? I was hoping to leave my BN in >the drain mode at nighttime and check on it in the morning but maybe I need to >calibrate during the day so I can monitor its progress? >I just want to make sure I'm doing it right. Often I feel like there are >different methods to accomplish the same task od the BN and I can never figure >out which one is correct or incorrect. >Thanks for your help and your time. >Lisa >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ?
