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Nightwing · 12-26-2006, 11:37 PM

I have a mystery... This Mystery may solve some others that are having battery problems.

Could some SD card be eating more power or draining the batteries when the reader is off?

Tonight Instead of having 1 or two bars must have had zero! Because it popped up the int screen! decided ok will pull the SD memory. Did had enough energy to get to the main menu with basically zero bars.

Had enough power to run but plug a card in and zero. Littery lock up the system. Also have been busy and not using the reader much but the indicator has really dropped over the last few weeks. With no more than 300 to 800 pages.

So this is the Poser: Could some SD card draw a lot of power? In effect draining the units. Maybe even constantly? If it around 900MA battery would make really no sense but I have seen stranger things with circuit in the past. The card I was using is a 256MB Panasonic circa 2004. May breake out some test gear and see if the memory is depowered when off. If not....

12-26-2006, 11:37 PM	#1
Nightwing Addict Posts: 303 Karma: 541 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Cowon A2 Dell x3i, Sony Reader & Eee PC!	A MYSTERY: SD and Power drain? I have a mystery... This Mystery may solve some others that are having battery problems. Could some SD card be eating more power or draining the batteries when the reader is off? Tonight Instead of having 1 or two bars must have had zero! Because it popped up the int screen! decided ok will pull the SD memory. Did had enough energy to get to the main menu with basically zero bars. Had enough power to run but plug a card in and zero. Littery lock up the system. Also have been busy and not using the reader much but the indicator has really dropped over the last few weeks. With no more than 300 to 800 pages. So this is the Poser: Could some SD card draw a lot of power? In effect draining the units. Maybe even constantly? If it around 900MA battery would make really no sense but I have seen stranger things with circuit in the past. The card I was using is a 256MB Panasonic circa 2004. May breake out some test gear and see if the memory is depowered when off. If not....