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rob_squared
03-19-2003, 12:57 PM
I put my clie onto my charger then plugged it in. Next morning it was at 0% and I was just barely able to put it in my other charger. The thing is, I know that its the new charger that I bought that is doing this. And there's no possibility of returning it.
Importluva
03-19-2003, 02:43 PM
:(

Whats weird is that when I woke up today, my clie wasn't fully charged. It was sittting around 80% after charging for 9 hours! So I went to BB and exchanged it. Weird huh.
JwY
03-19-2003, 03:51 PM
that is weird,
never happened to me yet.
hope it wont.
DazalC
03-19-2003, 09:16 PM
something more weird, i don't have aa clie yet :-P
vansouza
03-19-2003, 09:50 PM
It sat in the charger all night and I synced about four times this morning before going to work... then I got to work and on 30% power was showing... in a panic I used the external battery charger from my now returned NX and it worked... in less than an hour ... full charge that took... cool... scarry...
rob_squared
03-19-2003, 10:23 PM
All these weird issues and no explanations. I'm going to try other things with my charger, see what happens.
DanT
03-19-2003, 10:54 PM
What's the charging voltage of your charger?
rob_squared
03-19-2003, 11:15 PM
Uhm, beyond knowing that its a number your guess is as good as mine. When I bought it, it said any t-series connector clie and listed both my NR70 and SJ30 as useable. Wouldn't it take a negative voltage to drain a battery?
DanT
03-19-2003, 11:51 PM
I think your Clie requires 5.2 VDC charging voltage. If you have faulty charger and it only puts out less than 3.7 VDC, it will drain your battery instead of charging, I think.  According to the spec, 3.64 VDC is the minimum voltage for the Clie to work (0%) and at 3.53 VDC it will shut itself off to save the RAM from being wiped out. 

My Clie requires 5.7 VDC. I bought one of those 2-in-1 HotSync travel chargers that you can use your PC USB to charge. Well my PC USB only puts out 5.0 VDC. When I let it to charge all night, the next morning it only showed 80%. The Sony charger does give 5.7VDC. I ended up just using the 2-in-1 charger for HotSync. If you check the Sony version, it also does not use USB for charging. My guess is because the USB charging voltage is too low.
Unregistered
03-20-2003, 11:42 AM
Originally posted by DanT
I think your Clie requires 5.2 VDC charging voltage. If you have faulty charger and it only puts out less than 3.7 VDC, it will drain your battery instead of charging, I think.  According to the spec, 3.64 VDC is the minimum voltage for the Clie to work (0%) and at 3.53 VDC it will shut itself off to save the RAM from being wiped out. 

My Clie requires 5.7 VDC. I bought one of those 2-in-1 HotSync travel chargers that you can use your PC USB to charge. Well my PC USB only puts out 5.0 VDC. When I let it to charge all night, the next morning it only showed 80%. The Sony charger does give 5.7VDC. I ended up just using the 2-in-1 charger for HotSync. If you check the Sony version, it also does not use USB for charging. My guess is because the USB charging voltage is too low.

I bought one of those 2-in-1 charge/hotsync cables on Ebay @ Christmas. Since then, I've used it as my ONLY charger. I haven't had ANY trouble (the Sony cradle sits on my desk waiting to be used for charging--but never does get used).
rob_squared
03-20-2003, 01:07 PM
If only it were as simple as plugging in the power wrong... Oh well, I probably just had the luck of buying a faulty charger. At least it still hotsyncs ok.