From: Mark Bright <mark_at_redbreva.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:43:43 +0100

I have now run the battery life test, with the same Optimised ATA code 4
times, the runtime varies from 09:23 to 09:55. The amount of time charging
would appear to have a bearing... I know that sound obvious, but a 5 hour
charge give about 30 minutes shorter runtime than a 12 hour charge!

My understanding of the cells in the FMR/V2 is that they are full charged in
about 4 hours...

I have entered these results and an updated graph on the BatteryTest page:
http://rockbox.haxx.se/twiki/bin/view/Main/BatteryTest

Are there any other FMR/V2 owners willing to run the same simple test, and
see if a) I have a duff battery, or b) this hardware platform is more power
hungry?

Mark

|-----Original Message-----
|From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
|[mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Björn Stenberg
|Sent: 20 June 2004 10:03
|To: Rockbox development
|Subject: Re: Battery Test .Rock
|
|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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