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Posted by matt1 on 11-13-2001 10:27 PM:

compact flash eats my battery

i have a matchbookdrive adapter and a CFcard. If I leave the adapter and card plugged in, the battery life is about 4 days!!
Does anyone know why the card uses so much power?? where does the power go?? i wish i could leave the card in all the time.

Posted by dkessler on 11-14-2001 12:36 AM:

Re: compact flash eats my battery

quote:
Originally posted by matt1

i have a matchbookdrive adapter and a CFcard. If I leave the adapter and card plugged in, the battery life is about 4 days!!

Does anyone know why the card uses so much power?? where does the power go?? i wish i could leave the card in all the time.

All CF cards are not created equal. When your Visor is "off" it really isn't off, it's in a low power standby mode. The CF card is also in a standby mode, but some CF cards use a lot more power in standby mode than others. Where does it go? It's powering the logic on the CF card that is waiting for the next command that the card needs to process. You can search the archives of the FlashAdapter-forum and find a great deal of discussion on this topic. There is also a database there that provides power use measurements for several CF cards.

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Posted by matt1 on 11-14-2001 02:40 AM:

thanks for the info
BTW- I downloaded your latest FA 2.01 and LOVE my new VFS
capabilities-it's easy to use and works beautifully. Thanks for supporting 3.0. my visor has a hard drive!!!!!

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