Battery drain.

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Lars Hesselholdt - 05 Aug 2008 10:20 GMT

I have a 7, that is serving me well and has for a long time, but lately it
has become a little silly, in the way that it drains the battery and backup
while switched off. Now I always has to leave it on 220 power, or it well be
flat in 3-4 days. Anyone seen this before. I turn off by menu, by fn-esc og
by closing it, same thing. It's like it doesn't turn as much of as it
should. Of course it has to keep the memory alive, but normally takes much
much longer to drain the battery. Tried with two different batteries - but
maybe they are both bad, they do keep it on for the time they've always
done.

Thanks a lot.

Lars Hesselholdt

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Damian Walker - 07 Aug 2008 05:14 GMT

Quoting Lars Hesselholdt's message of Tuesday:

> I have a 7, that is serving me well and has for a long time, but lately it
> has become a little silly, in the way that it drains the battery and backup
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> maybe they are both bad, they do keep it on for the time they've always
> done.

Is there something you've installed that might be switching the machine
on at regular intervals and thus draining the battery, like a cron-type
program? Alternatively, are you sure it still switches off on closing?
It's not unknown for the switch on Series 5s to stop working, and
perhaps this is happening with the 7.

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Lars Hesselholdt - 10 Aug 2008 15:08 GMT

Thanks, bit no such application, and if it didn't switch off it would drain
quicker, and then switch off, not draining the backup too. It's like it is
half swifted off. Maybe it is the pcmcia memory card that drains, I am
trying to leave it out.

> Quoting Lars Hesselholdt's message of Tuesday:
>
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> It's not unknown for the switch on Series 5s to stop working, and perhaps
> this is happening with the 7.

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Eric Lindsay - 24 Aug 2008 21:16 GMT

> Thanks, bit no such application, and if it didn't switch off it would drain
> quicker, and then switch off, not draining the backup too. It's like it is
> half swifted off. Maybe it is the pcmcia memory card that drains, I am
> trying to leave it out.

If I were guessing at a cause, I would guess you have a faulty capacitor
in the Psion battery power circuit, that is allowing a a small trickle
of power through all the time. Enough extra drain to empty the batteries.

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Battery drain.