Screen vs CPU and battery life

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Penster wrote:
> What uses up the battery most on a T3? The screen or the CPU? What is
the
> proportion of energy used by each?

> I am trying out Lightspeed (an overclocking utility) because
increasing the
> CPU speed (from 400 to 600) may be useful when watching movies; a
process
> which stretches Palm hardware to the limit. When I do so, the battery
life
> drops sharply, perhaps to 30 minutes.
> I would expect overclocking to use more energy, but I am surprised by
the
> drop in battery life. It implies that the CPU uses up a very
significant
> proportion of the battery life.
> Anyone know about this in detail?
> Mick

Rechargable batteries will deliver more amp hours if they are not
loaded as hard. In other words, a battery could deliver, for instance,
100ma for 10 hours. So you might think if you put a heavier load on the
battery such as 200ma (double) then it ought to last 5 hours (half).
But, it will not. Conversly, if you reduced the load to only 50ma
(half) then it will actually last longer than 20 hours (double).

So increasing screen brightness or increasing processor speed does in
fact shorten the usable runtime of the battery more than might be
expected. The converse is also true.

If a rechargable battery is rated at 1000 mAh that implies it should
produce 100 miliamps for 10 hours OR 10 miliamps for 100 hours. But the
actual ratings are based on a standard discharge rate of a 20 hour time
period. Therefore this 1000 mAh battery will probably produce 10 ma for
MORE than 100 hours. At the higher discharge rate of 100 ma it won't
even last the mathematical 10 hours.

Another way to say it is- if you cut the current draw in half you will
get MORE than twice the usable time from the battery. If you double the
amount of current being drawn you will get less than half the usable
time out of the battery. And, the more the current draw the more severe
this becomes. It is not linear.

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Thanks. That explains it very well.
Mick
<pailfaced88@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Penster wrote:
> > What uses up the battery most on a T3? The screen or the CPU? What is
> the
> > proportion of energy used by each?
>
> > I am trying out Lightspeed (an overclocking utility) because
> increasing the
> > CPU speed (from 400 to 600) may be useful when watching movies; a
> process
> > which stretches Palm hardware to the limit. When I do so, the battery
> life
> > drops sharply, perhaps to 30 minutes.
> > I would expect overclocking to use more energy, but I am surprised by
> the
> > drop in battery life. It implies that the CPU uses up a very
> significant
> > proportion of the battery life.
> > Anyone know about this in detail?
> > Mick
>
> Rechargable batteries will deliver more amp hours if they are not
> loaded as hard. In other words, a battery could deliver, for instance,
> 100ma for 10 hours. So you might think if you put a heavier load on the
> battery such as 200ma (double) then it ought to last 5 hours (half).
> But, it will not. Conversly, if you reduced the load to only 50ma
> (half) then it will actually last longer than 20 hours (double).
>
> So increasing screen brightness or increasing processor speed does in
> fact shorten the usable runtime of the battery more than might be
> expected. The converse is also true.
>
> If a rechargable battery is rated at 1000 mAh that implies it should
> produce 100 miliamps for 10 hours OR 10 miliamps for 100 hours. But the
> actual ratings are based on a standard discharge rate of a 20 hour time
> period. Therefore this 1000 mAh battery will probably produce 10 ma for
> MORE than 100 hours. At the higher discharge rate of 100 ma it won't
> even last the mathematical 10 hours.
>
> Another way to say it is- if you cut the current draw in half you will
> get MORE than twice the usable time from the battery. If you double the
> amount of current being drawn you will get less than half the usable
> time out of the battery. And, the more the current draw the more severe
> this becomes. It is not linear.
>

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anyone know where to get T3 replacement batteries from??

Paul
"Penster" <xxx@xxx.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks. That explains it very well.
> Mick
> <pailfaced88@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1108334859.794707.72930@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> Penster wrote:
>> > What uses up the battery most on a T3? The screen or the CPU? What is
>> the
>> > proportion of energy used by each?
>>
>> > I am trying out Lightspeed (an overclocking utility) because
>> increasing the
>> > CPU speed (from 400 to 600) may be useful when watching movies; a
>> process
>> > which stretches Palm hardware to the limit. When I do so, the battery
>> life
>> > drops sharply, perhaps to 30 minutes.
>> > I would expect overclocking to use more energy, but I am surprised by
>> the
>> > drop in battery life. It implies that the CPU uses up a very
>> significant
>> > proportion of the battery life.
>> > Anyone know about this in detail?
>> > Mick
>>
>> Rechargable batteries will deliver more amp hours if they are not
>> loaded as hard. In other words, a battery could deliver, for instance,
>> 100ma for 10 hours. So you might think if you put a heavier load on the
>> battery such as 200ma (double) then it ought to last 5 hours (half).
>> But, it will not. Conversly, if you reduced the load to only 50ma
>> (half) then it will actually last longer than 20 hours (double).
>>
>> So increasing screen brightness or increasing processor speed does in
>> fact shorten the usable runtime of the battery more than might be
>> expected. The converse is also true.
>>
>> If a rechargable battery is rated at 1000 mAh that implies it should
>> produce 100 miliamps for 10 hours OR 10 miliamps for 100 hours. But the
>> actual ratings are based on a standard discharge rate of a 20 hour time
>> period. Therefore this 1000 mAh battery will probably produce 10 ma for
>> MORE than 100 hours. At the higher discharge rate of 100 ma it won't
>> even last the mathematical 10 hours.
>>
>> Another way to say it is- if you cut the current draw in half you will
>> get MORE than twice the usable time from the battery. If you double the
>> amount of current being drawn you will get less than half the usable
>> time out of the battery. And, the more the current draw the more severe
>> this becomes. It is not linear.
>>
>
>