[bookport] Battery Types for Book Port

  • From: Vision World Wide <visionworldwide@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:22:33 -0500

The manual indicates that the manufacturer does not recommend use of 
rechargeable batteries with the Book Port. Is that still the case?

Pat Price

At 10:21 AM 8/5/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I almost always use rechargeable batteries with my Bookport.  The
>battery life is fine, I save money, and the environment wins!
>
>The battery monitor is a bit off with rechargeable batteries (they start
>"fresh" at around 70% and linger in the 50's for a bit), but once you
>have this calibrated, they are fine.
>
>-- Pete
>
>Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:54:32 -0400
>From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bookport] Re: One more suggestion
>
>Why would you want to add that complexity to the product, especially
>given = the fact that the battery life is awesome and that you would
>then have to = also include international voltage support?
>
>
> >>> clarence@xxxxxxxxxxx Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:52:17 AM >>>
>Larry and guys for the cheap amongst us how about in a future
>hardware=20 revision that we have the ability to use an AC adapter.



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