stevenator65

I'm looking to measure how much time my x50v runs w/an external battery pack like the Pelican Power Brick or one of those double A battery packs. I want to measure this w/my x50v fully charged and the external source fully charged. I'll run a movie or mp3's and I want it to measure how long the unit was powered by the external source only - Once the axim's battery goes under 100% that means the external source is no longer providing power. That's when the test should end.

If I can't find something to test that then I'd like to get a copy of Silentknight's Battery Timer as used in Gigi's Review of the Mugen 1800mAh battery. I went to Silentknight's website but couldn't find the utility there.

I'm using Uptime, and I guess if I set it to shut off with my Ax's battery at 20%, then it will give me the total uptime. I can then perform the test w/o the external battery to figure out how much the external battery is helping.

Any other ideas?

plambham

Hi..again.

Good to here your're following thru on the battery pack idea. I'm not sure exactly what your're looking for. But i think this may be it. If you do build your own battery pack, check my geocities page in my pda(if you're unsure with soldering irons) also do not to hesistate to pm if you need help. I would suggest a home built one, (i own both) because the pelican power bricks have a tendancy to overheat and stop working according to some psp forums.

stevenator65

Plambham, that's what I'm looking for, and then some! But thanks. I think the Uptime meter actually worked out great. I used it today on the Pelican. I charged the Pelican 1.5 weeks ago and haven't touched it. Today I connected it to my fully charged Ax and ran a movie continuously. According to Uptime, the Pelican powered it for 2hours 40 minutes before the Ax's battery started running down. I'm going to test it again tommorrow. So far it's working well - that is, both Uptime and the Pelican.