Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 39

batteries going dead in 4 days

Hey....

I bought a visor... refub. (my plat. is dead. I killed it by dropping it in the sink full of water) ....

anyway....the visor eats batteries in like 3 days... I have gone to not using it .. and seeing how long they last... 4 days.

I sent an email to handspring and they sent me back a canned resposnse... anyone else out there heard of this? Will they swap it out for me?

T

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what kind of batteries? how much stuff is on your visor?

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Austin, Texas
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I use Energizer.

And I do have quite a bit ..6 megs...
I deleted .. the VHS and the FA mover stuff... Avantgo and the visor phone extention. and I am going to see how long they last.

The funny things ... The batt. show no wear or drain.. then one morning .. DEAD with a hard reset.

Once.. I took the batt. out and they had life in them. I thought that was odd... but they would not work

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I was wondering whether NiCad, NiMH, or alk ... but, as I don't recall Energizer having rechargeables, I'll assume alk.

Based on your other comments, my guess would be it's the Visor.
Once upon a time I had a tape player/recorder which, even when ostensibly "off" (all buttons neutral) still sucked power for no visible reason. This condition eventually disappeared for no visible reason.

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: San Jose, CA
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Sounds like the backup capacitor has failed in a shorted condition. The easiest solution is to buy a new button board - it will come with a new capacitor. WWW.GetHighTech.com sells them for $10.

There is a long thread at:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/sho...p?threadid=3756