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- From: hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Battery life on the HP95LX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.162754.9983@usho93.hou281.chevron.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 16:27:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.102703.3401@crd.ge.com>
- Sender: news@usho93.hou281.chevron.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea)
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- Organization: chevron
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- >I have had my HP95LX for almost 1 year now. I can assure you>
- >that 2 to 3 weeks is perfectly normal. HP's claim of 1 to 2
- >months is pure hog wash. Turning off the serial port reduces
- >power consumption by about 25%, which is important, but not the
- >magical trick it is sometimes claimed to be. Using the battery
- >use time in 95BUDDY, I measure that the 2 to 3 weeks of elapsed
- >time translates into 12 to 15 hours of actual use.
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- I find that I get about 20-23 hours (according to 95BUDDY) before the low
- battery alarm goes off. That's 8 hours more than Vic seems to be getting.
- I'm using a 1meg machine, Serial # ABA3206A00207, and I'm using
- Panasonic AA batteries, not nicad.
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- Bill Corea
- hwcco@chevron.com San Ramon, California
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