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Subject: Re: Battery Test .Rock

Re: Battery Test .Rock

From: Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:02:40 +0200

Mark Bright wrote:
> I have just been doing a little experimentation with the Battery Test
> plug-in on my FMR looking for the answer to two questions.

Interesting!

> A) The battery life is well short of the estimate - with just about the
> lowest power usage scenario you could imagine

The estimation is based on the power drain of the old recorders. Could the FM/V2 units be using more power than the old ones? Has anybody measured the actual mA drain from the batteries on a V2/FM?

> B) The Assembler code seemed to make no difference - in fact showed a small
> reduction.

The difference however appears to be well within the margin of error. Did you try several test runs?

Please add your findings to the BatteryTest page:
  http://rockbox.haxx.se/twiki/bin/view/Main/BatteryTest

-- 
Björn
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