Re: External powering issue with my SD-702

["Paul Jacobson" thebrunswicktwitcher]

After a further scan of the manual, it seems that you can change the  
ext battery low voltage warning from the factory default of 11V to  
10VDC-18VDC in 0.1V increments.  It might be worth changing this to  
13V and seeing if this triggers a change over to the internal battery?

cheers
Paul

On 30/11/2007, at 4:49 PM, Paul Jacobson wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Your NiMH pack would have a discharged voltage of around 12V.
> According to the 702 manual the external battery low voltage
> threshold is 11V, so I suspect that the external pack reaches a point
> where it cannot supply sufficient current to run the 702 before the
> power management circuit detects low voltage and switches to the
> internal battery.
>
> The solution would be to either get the factory to change the low
> threshold point to something like 12.5 or 13V for use with the 12
> cell pack, or to use a 10 cell instead.
>
> cheers
> Paul
>