Registered: Mar 2000
Location: New York
Posts: 7

That's correct. The last response is the current setting.

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Monroe, Michigan, USA
Posts: 244

Christopher:

NiMH cells have a very rapid voltage tail-off toward the end of their useful charge, like NiCd cells, but NiMH cells have about 2.5-3X the milliampere-hour capacity of NiCd cells. (They last about 2.5-3X as long, in other words.) They also don't suffer from "memory" effects; you can put partially discharged NiMH cells in the charger and still get full life each time, whereas if you put partially discharged NiCd cells in the charger, you will get gradually less and less time out of them.
I use Energizer AccuRechargeables and can get up to a week out of a set (using a Radio Shack 9-hour charger); as the cells reach 2.40V for the pair, voltage drops suddenly.

I started a game of FreeCell with the voltage showing 2.42V, and within 3 moves, I got the low-battery warning (at 2.24V). At that point, I shut the Visor off and changed the batteries.

Remember, too, that after using graphics-intensive apps, you may get a low indicated voltage. If you go back to the launcher and wait several seconds, the reading may rebound by up to 0.8V! However, the lower the voltage is when you start using the battery-sucker app, the farther the voltage will be drawn down. It's like the cells have less reserve capacity when they run down a little (which is logical).

Eventually, I got into the habit of changing batteries every few days just to be on the safe side.