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Originally posted by LK&O on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 16, 2015

So Bill, how long did the HC-2 keep working?

Maybe that last bar is where all the juice is!

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Originally posted by William Brillinger on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 16, 2015

The last bar is where all the juice was!

Charging Test...

I fully charged my HC-2.
I set my brightness to full.
I set it to not sleep.

    2:30 pm - turned it on
    4:30 pm - showing the last bar.
    10:00 pm - showing red
    10:40 pm - it had shut down
    Flashing battery indicator on re-power.


I've never let it get to "red" before!
I've got it on the charger now.

    7:45 am - on the charger
    9:00 am - shows 1/2 charged
    11:00 am - shows full indicator, but still says "charging"
    2:45 pm - shows full indicator, but still says "charging"


I have always put it on the charger when not in use
I have never let it discharge fully.
I have used the reset button before. This would have been while it was near full.

- Bill

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Originally posted by picturemaker22 on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 17, 2015

I fully charged my HC-2, turned it on and set it to 50% brightness and not to sleep.

   started at 1215 PM

   red line started at 905 PM

   Black screen by  930 PM

   The batteries lasted 8 hours and 50 minutes of useable power, the last bar lasted about 3 hours.

That's a lot more than I expected.

Mel

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Originally posted by TS on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 17, 2015

This is all good but let's remember on-but-not-being-used power
consumption may not be the same as on-and-being-used power consumption;
we may still not know how long it really lasts. Hopefully they are
the same.

As much as I love the system, as we cannot easily change batteries
or use it while charging I certainly couldn't recommend it if it can't
go the distance of an average day at a train show.

Cheers,

Tim

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Originally posted by LK&O on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 17, 2015

The conclusions drawn from these tests may be the battery lasts 8 hours and the charge indicator is not linear.

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