Thread: Battery issues?
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Old 06-04-2010, 12:14 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Seabound View Post
It seems to me, then, that the JBL battery indicator is a bit misleading, or at least poorly designed, in that it does not translate to amount of reading time left, as is the case for my other reading devices.
Not misleading or poorly designed, the battery indicator is tuned to normal non rechargeable batteries.

Without going into detail suffice it to say normal alkaline batteries are very different beasts then rechargeable batteries and the power indicator reacts differently to the two types of batteries.

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It appears from what I've been reading that for the JBL "your time's up" is at around the 2-bar mark.
For rechargeable batteries the 2-bar mark is par for the course. If you must see 1-bar buy regular alkaline batteries.
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