Re: The other side of Zoomer Battery Life

Gerard Hickey (hickey@ctron.com)
Mon, 24 Apr 95 16:16 PDT

Rob Freundlich writes:
>
> >The AC adapter circuit must have a higher voltage than the Zoomer's
> >internal batteries or the batteries are used to power the system.
>
> The adapter is currently (no pun intended) set at 6V. The Zoomer's three
> batteries total 4.5V, so the adapter *should* be higher. However, it's a 300mA
> adapter instead of whatever it's supposed to be. So this may be having some
> effect.
>

When you load a power supply, the voltage of that supply will
decrease.

I suspect that the above 300mA supply is not the one that was talked
about in the original message. 300mA is a lot of current for a
hand-held application. In fact, I would be surprised if the Zoomer
draws 100mA.

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