[gui-talk] Battery life

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

The NLS DTB player has a 2100 milliampere-hour NiMH battery pack.  This is
lighter, smaller and has 50% more capacity than the pack in the C-1 cassette
player.  I expect that the other players have much smaller battery packs.  

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of albert griffith
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:29 PM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Battery life
> 
> I've never seen one and should have gathered more information before
> making
> such a statement.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:55 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Battery life
> 
> Albert,
> 
> When my NLS digital Player is fully charged, it reports holding an excess
> of
> 
> 29 hours of playing capability. That announcement's just one of its
> numerous
> 
> nice features. Anyway, as Dave says and implies, this is a much larger
> device carrying a much bigger battery pack, totally different from one of
> these small players.
> diffeent sastys
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Battery life
> 
> 
> Thanks, I hadn't read its specs anywhere.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of David Andrews
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:16 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [gui-talk] Battery life
> 
> It is a much larger and heavier machine with a larger battery.  It is
> comparing apples and oranges to compare its battery life to the
> Stream and BookSense.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 10:03 PM 7/21/2009, you wrote:
> >I find it disappointing that the NLS book reader will run twice as long
> on
> a
> >charge as either the book sense or the Stream.  What's up with that?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> >Behalf Of Darrell Shandrow
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:39 PM
> >To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> >Subject: Re: [gui-talk] book sense question
> >
> >Hello Everyone,
> >
> >Yes. A direct link to the article follows:
> >
> >http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/2009/07/first-impressions-new-
> booksense-
> o
> >wner.html
> >
> >I hope you find it helpful.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Darrell