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I recently purchased NIMH batteries to go with my Visor. I use FPS Util 4.0 and Launch'em, both of which have battery indicators. Both show wildly girating battery charge levels. I have used the .7 command to change to [nicad] but still have no idea if I have a lot of juice left or very little. How do others deal with this? My guess is to ignore the indicators and just change the batteries on a once a week basis. Any ideas would be welcome. TIA.

I use NiMH also, and I usually change the batteries at about 40-50% on the indicator (I use Launch'em, too.) I'm sure they would last longer, but I'm paranoid and I don't trust it that much. One day I may make a backup and see how far down it'll go before the batteries really die....just not today.

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Originally posted by Jaybrams
I recently purchased NIMH batteries to go with my Visor. I use FPS Util 4.0 and Launch'em, both of which have battery indicators. Both show wildly girating battery charge levels. I have used the .7 command to change to [nicad] but still have no idea if I have a lot of juice left or very little. How do others deal with this? TIA.

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How do you set the Battery type with the Visor

Hello:

I see in your posts that you guys are setting the battery type somewhere. How do you do that? I cannot seem to find that in the general preferences of the Visor.

Gani

Go to memo pad. write the stroke for a shortcut, then .7 Keep doing this until you reach the batttery type you want, alkaline, rechargeable alkaline, NICAD. For Palm OS 3.3 and higher, NIMH is also listed.

Ni Metal Hydride..

Jaybrams:

I tried what you said, and it does show the battery types, but I have put rechargeable NiMH batteries, and the visor does not have OS 3.3, so I should be selecting NICAD right?

Thanks for the tip....

Gani

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Originally posted by Jaybrams
Go to memo pad. write the stroke for a shortcut, then .7 Keep doing this until you reach the batttery type you want, alkaline, rechargeable alkaline, NICAD. For Palm OS 3.3 and higher, NIMH is also listed.

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Belzebutt

From all that I've read, if you don't have the NIMH option, use NICAD. I assume that NIMH would be more accurate. I believe that NICADS and NIMHs are supposed to follow similar curves for power usage. I've been using NIMHs for about a month and I track the voltage more than any other statistic (such as % remaining). I pay more attention to battery usage now than when I just used alkalines, but its a small price to pay for the savings over disposables.

Does anyone know what the environmental impact of NiMH vs NiCd vs Alkalines is? For example, is throwing out an NiMH battery 10 times worse than throwing out an Alkaline, therefore reducing the environmental advantage of rechargables? Or are Alkalines still more dangerous?

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Originally posted by Belzebutt
Does anyone know what the environmental impact of NiMH vs NiCd vs Alkalines is?

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