Battery Power

[Mr. Anderson]

I now tested the ANSMANN 2400mAh ones... they work almost exacly the same time :blink: -Varta screwed me! Oh wait... I am not really sure if those batteries where still full... I reloaded them some time ago, they might've lost some power...

 

[x68000]

my pet hate is the damn battery meter, which on my system shows as full or empty but nothing in between...........bizarre.

 

[PSyMastR]

my pet hate is the damn battery meter, which on my system shows as full or empty but nothing in between...........bizarre.

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Ive gotten medium on my duracells. But its pretty funny, that my medium battery logo is a duracell (im making my own skin, but its really random and makes no sence, and it is no constant theme, so im not gunna release it)

 

[Mr. Anderson]

my pet hate is the damn battery meter, which on my system shows as full or empty but nothing in between...........bizarre.

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I allways get "MIDIUM" or "FULL" it's not really helpfull true, I only know that midium means the batteries will run sometime from now on(don't really have a clue how long).

Midium doesn't help me, give me some real battery estimate, please at least in tens like 10%, 20% 90% etc...

 

[RiX0R]

mine lasts about 6hours with 2500mah nimh gp brand batteries

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Shitskys. I have the exact same batteries, but mine only last 3-4 hours.

They're brand new though, and the booklet says they need to go through about 3 full discharge-charge cycles before they're up to capacity.

Problem is that the gp2x stops working way before they're completely discharged. I'm plugging the half-drained ones into an unused GBA now ... let's see if that increases my battery life.


Theoretically you should get 5hrs out of those 2500mAh's though... (2500mAh / 500mA = 5h). I wonder how you got 6... or did you exclusively use the music player with disabled backlight? (Which should give 2500/300 = 8 hrs)

 

[Vimacs]

a decent charger discharges batetrys before charging them.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

a decent charger discharges batetrys before charging them.

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True, the good ones do that

But I think the GP2x discharges batteries pretty well anyway :lol:

 

[joeeoh]

Okay So take the batteries out of the GP2X when I'm not using them?! tes or no?!

please people its 1 question then I'll let u do n e thing to this thread u want :angry:

 

[Tobriand]

Wonder if batteries are like CPUs - maybe they're only marked at the minimum they definitely go to, and yours happen to be supper overchargeable batteries.

 

[joeeoh]

Wonder if batteries are like CPUs - maybe they're only marked at the minimum they definitely go to, and yours happen to be supper overchargeable batteries.

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say wha? h34r:

 

[Prothall]

Dead Karl is one of those rare and amazing but largely unknown bits of hidden internet glory, and unusual in that it was one I was not previously privy to.

I also thought the battery thing sad "MIDIUM", but it turns out that if you look closely it actually says "MIDUM" - I could be deceiving myself, but I think I'm right on this score...

Anyway, the bottom line on batteries is: get rechargeable ones, c. 2500 mAh, recharge regularly, and you should be fine.

And joeeoh, it shouldn't really make a difference, but taking the batteries out can't hurt.

 

[joeeoh]

Really? but then why do my batteries keep running out in about a half hour? If it's not that my GP2X is still using them when I turn them off how do I find what the MAH is on the batteries? ( god I'm sucha noob! )

 

[Hanz™]

Really? but then why do my batteries keep running out in about a half hour? If it's not that my GP2X is still using them when I turn them off how do I find what the MAH is on the batteries? ( god I'm sucha noob! )

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Just by some Ansmann batteries off the internet.
Like so. And buy a nimh charger while you are at it.