Comments on: Review: BC10 Battery Adapter for NR and T Series

Maybe the Sony log lights up?

I litterally bought my Landware BattPack from BLOOMINGDALES, no other, for my Palm Vx last year for ONLY $1.98. No joke, and this is also a syncing cradle too, I don't know where Sony gets the notion to sell a battery harness with a wire for $40, I can understand $20, but $40 is pure BS.

Come on, there r different. By BC10 , you can "full charge" your clie and you even can run the power directly from the battery adapter without charging your built-in battery.

Landware doesn't make it anymore, but when in production the battpac was US $49.00

> Come on, there r different. By BC10 , you can
> "full charge" your clie and you even can run the
> power directly from the battery adapter without
> charging your built-in battery.

And this is useful because..?

"And this is useful because..?"

Because you could use it while enroute (as a PASSENGER!) to an all day seminar or other event, and arrive onsite with the internal battery still full. A rare occassion for anybody, but possible.

Some people would be more comfortable using it this way on the train/plane/bus, rather than hooking it up midday and letting it hang there like, like,.. well, I won't go there.

Running the device direct from the charger without actually charging is useful. When you charge a battery you push a certain current in, because things are less than 100% efficient you get a loss. I have no idea what the figure is for this system, but to illustrate the point, if the charger holds 4 batteries, the power from one battery might be wasted in the form of heat during the charging cycle.

Run the handheld off the charger directly and the only loss in the system is in the wiring between the charger and the PDA.

Alkaline batteries such as Duracell and Energizer are not effecient at putting out lots of current, they are much more effecient with a slow drain. NiMH batteries can be very effecient at high current loads, that's why they do so much better in digital camera's and a product like this.
If your alkalines ever get warm when discharging, you will be lucky to get 1/2 their rated power out of them, sometimes even less. (They have an internal resistance that increases exponentially with current)

>your clie was full charged, the green LED light on the BC10 will be off

Sorry ,I made a mistake, not the green LED on the BC10 will be off, is the LED on the clie will be off when it was full charged.

"And this is useful because..?"

Because it can help preserve a full charge on the Clie. A rare situation, and useless for most folks, but I could see where someone could be heading for an all day seminar, and did not want to drain the internal battery reading an ebook while enroute to their destination (as a PASSENGER of course!).

Most people would be more comfortable arriving at the event with a still-full battery. As opposed to pulling out this battery pack and letting it hang there like, like,.. well, I won't go there.

I myself have run into situations where I'll be taking intense notes at an all-morning work meeting, then be paged to go to multiple remote locations, then have to go straight to class and write reports for two hours with the keyboard pulling down the battery...

Dump the AA batteries and go for AC current!

http://shop.brando.com.hk/clietravelcharger.php

These guys sell a more cost effective means for charging your Sony NR series.

$22.

It was just a technical question out of curiosity because someone here at work will ask me as soon as they buy one, and I don't have a Clie to test it myself. I already have a car charger for my current device which collects dust.

If someone wants to donate a Sony NRV for testing purposes, please send it to...

The Brando charger on this website is for the S and N Series clies which don't actually need it since the power cable to the N series clies can also plug directly into the pda to be used as a travel charger.

I can't really understand what Sony was doing in not including this capability in the T and NR series clies. Ironically, they are also the ones with poor battery life compared to the N Series

The rated output of the BC-10 is 500mA. My NR70 draws up to 800mA--typical for recent color Clies. The BC-10 manual says the Clie will charge more slowly if it is used during charging--I would say considerably more slowly, and not completely since most of the power would go to the screen. So what we're looking at is an hour or two of downtime while the Clie recharges. On the other hand, the Clie can be run all day by swapping batteries in the BC-10.

People moaned when the SL10 was discontinued because it was the last Clie with replaceable batteries. The BC-10 gives you that option with any recent Clie--and it can recharge, too. What's the beef? (RIP Clara Pelzer)

But it still costs too much!

Maybe you should get back on your medication.

i found this product online during a general travel-charger search (yahoo shopping i think) earlier this week before the review. i've a n710.

DO NOT WORRY

it ships for the N Series too.

Don't worry, your car jumper leads should probably provide enough juice!

(This is intended as irony - do not attempt this at home.)

Are you sure you're talking about the same thing? I can't find any battery adapters on ebay.

look under clie charger in eBay.

The "T" Series Travel Charger I picked up from Sony for my T615 works just fine with my new NR70V. Don't know about the charger you are referring to as the one I got cost around $40.

wow, and for the whole 10 days you did not have a PalmOS PDA at all? Weird...