Re: [NTLK] Battery drainage

From: Thomas Isenbarger (isen_at_charter.net)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 19:59:22 PST


On Mar 14, 2005, at 18:47, Frank Gruendel wrote:

>> My UMP2000 eats up on batteries veery fast.
>> =20
>> In 2-3 days the (alkaline) batteries are consumed :-( And this happens
>
>> with minimal usage (1 hour per day)
>
> As Victor already pointed out, ensure that the "Receive beams
> automatically" setting is turned off. Apart from that, make sure
> you don't have any PC cards in your Newton while it is off. Some
> cards, like WLAN or Ethernet cards, will suck your battery dry
> in no time.

really? so every time you power off your newton, you replace any
network cards with memory cards or blanks?

Tom Isenbarger

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