OmniGo current drain

Marcus Groeber (100712.270@CompuServe.COM)
12 Aug 96 06:08:54 EDT

Hi Juraj,

> I just measured currents which OmniGo drains from these pour batteries.

> Drain mA Activity
> 1.1 Switched off
> 49 Idle in GEOS
> 260 Transmitting with Laplink

This is roughly the same as the values I got when trying similar measurements.
Values for two additional items might be of interest...

- transmission of a large file with the built-in Transfer application of Geos

- difference between "touch screen to turn on" enabled and disabled in "off"
mode.

Also it might be interesting to watch an OmniGo in "off" state for a while to
see if the current drain peeks in certain intervals to check the RTC alarm time
or the touchpad.

ciao marcus

ps: Does anyone have a conclusive result yet on the problem that the total time
kept by Battery Watcher doesn't survive a reboot? I have just read through last
week's mail and couldn't figure out a specific pattern, except for something
that has to do with installing it on an SRAM card...