From: Uwe Freese <mail_at_uwe-freese.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:03:24 +0100

Hello Doug,

Doug wrote on Thursday, December 19, 2002, 2:40:12 AM:

D> I suspect this is just a matter of common sense, but...
D> after about 3 hours of having the jukebox connected via USB, it crashed (thank
D> god it wasn't writing at the time). After booting up I noticed that the
D> battery light was flashing, indicating to me that the heating from the HD had
D> tricked the charging code into thinking that the batteries were charged, which
D> shortly led to a loss of power.

Charging is started when
- the calculated battery level is < 10% (when deep discharge on)
- or the battery voltage is < BATTERY_LEVEL_DANGEROUS (aka 4,75V)

These conditions are tested once per minute. Maybe the voltage went down
too quick (because of bad batteries)? I've never had this problem (even
if my hdd gets hot). Can you reproduce it? What happens if you turn
"deep discharge off"?

Bye, Uwe.
Received on 2002-12-19