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Re: PalmPilot Battery Problem



>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:38:32 -0600
>From: Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: PalmPilot Battery Problem
>
>	   I change my batteries this way all the time, not because there is any
>   benefit regarding the application of power to the memory per se, but
>   because it minimizes the time that there is no power. I find the time
>   w/o power much lower when I change 1 battery at a time. Perhaps this is
>   due to my own human failings in how quickly I can change batteries, but
>   I like to think not. :-)
>
>Everything you've ever heard about absent-minded professors is true
>(at least in my case).  So I make a point of taking out both
>batteries, putting them OVER THERE, and putting in both new
>batteries.  Otherwise it would just be a matter of time until I only
>replaced one of them, but twice!
>
>Regardless, the only advantage changing one at a time can reasonably
>make is the one you point out:  you spend a shorter period of time
>with the capacitor unpowered.  If it matters, he's got a bad capacitor
>(or something).

Pete Strobel has a lot of good info related to this on his web page.  See:

http://home.t-online.de/home/PSPilot/ppppowpi.htm

According to his research (measuring the voltage from the cap over time), a
correctly functioning Palm Pilot should hold its data for over 10 minutes
with the batteries removed.

	-Matt

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