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- From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Psion Series 3 Battery Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.095933.21923@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 09:59:33 GMT
- References: <Bxyz5A.EGx@fsg.com>
- Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Organization: University of Bristol
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- In article <Bxyz5A.EGx@fsg.com> jeremy@fsg.com (Jeremy C.M. Sevareid) writes:
- >
- >My new Psion Series 3 (V. 180F/ENG) occassionally flashes
- >a warning message. It says that the main battery is low.
- >
- >But, when I check the batteries with the System Info menu
- >item Batteries, it says that the main battery is good.
- >What's going on here?
-
- Seems to happen as the batteries get lowish, and my hypothesis is that
- when the batteries are still good but near to low, certain patterns of
- use can put on a transient load which makes the monitoring circuitry
- think they look low. I've been totally successful so far (about a
- year) by taking these warnings as meaning it's time to make sure that
- I've got a new set of batteries lying around, but not actually changing
- them until the system info menu Batteries report agrees that they are
- low.
-
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