Battery Power Time.

[sladden]

Originally Posted by Ned Seagoon

It is not possible to use a dip stick on a battery to see how much is left, like you could do with the fuel tank in the car.

All that can be done to measure a battery remaining time is to measure the drain from the battery and the voltage drop with respect to time and estimate the remaining time.

These current discharge and voltage drop measurements will be calculated the same regardless of operating system, however the estimate of remaining time will be the result of the algorithm used, and each operating system will have it's own algorithm.

Even a dipstick in a car tank only works if you are exactly equal with 'road, wind load and foot-pedal pressures'.

[Jaytee]

[smurfy]

Originally Posted by sladden

I know I am changing the subject, but Tom's picture brought back my frustration's.

I often want to, but I don't know how to 'stick a picture into a reply'.

2 ways
1) Subscribe to CTH and you can attach.

What you do get ?

Ad-less viewing of the Cyber Tech Help website (currently excludes some newsfeeds)
Ability to use custom avatars
Ability to have custom user-title (will after becoming a subscriber will be changed automatically to "CTH Subscriber")
Ability to post attachments to your threads and posts
Far larger PM inbox's
Subscribers I hope will also like the fact that they can donate to keep a free support resource live

2) Have an online photo storage account (i.e. Photobucket) and embed using [img] tags.

[Jaytee]

Woah! That is a big tick...............

[sladden]

Not wanting to apear to be a mizer, but not being wealthy.
"Subscribe to"
Means. What in anual $?

[Jaytee]

Originally Posted by sladden

Not wanting to apear to be a mizer, but not being wealthy.
"Subscribe to"
Means. What in anual $?

US$5.00 per year so 5 years would be around Aus$30.00
Click the CTH link that Smurfy put on his reply to you for all the gory details

[smurfy]

No, this:

is a Big Tick.

And AU$ is worth more than US$ at the moment so 5 years would probably be about AU$24.

[Jaytee]

*Shudders*
Go hard Sladden that's a bargain right there!

[sladden]

The only currency selections I can find are US, Eu, UK.
The only periods shown for selection are 1, 2 and 3 years.

[sladden]

Never mind.
I will wait for my email reply.

[Ned Seagoon]

Originally Posted by sladden

Even a dipstick in a car tank only works if you are exactly equal with 'road, wind load and foot-pedal pressures'.

Unfortunately in Australia all the dipsticks are down in Canberra, and none of them work, except for themselves.

[sladden]

Originally Posted by Ned Seagoon

Unfortunately in Australia all the dipsticks are down in Canberra, and none of them work, except for themselves.

Since when did an ACT "dipstick" work for anything. I thought they could only tell other people what to do.

My dad taught me:- After you leave school. - Learn something that you enjoy doing, then do it. - If you can't do it, teach it. - If you can't even teach it. Join the public service.

[sladden]

Originally Posted by Ned Seagoon

Unfortunately in Australia all the dipsticks are down in Canberra, and none of them work, except for themselves.

Sorry about that folk's. You hit my hot-spot then.

I went through 'Infants' 'Junior' and 'High-school. With never being given homework.
We were about 44 children and 1 teacher in a classroom.
We were taught, instructed and helped all day by the teacher.

I only received homework after I finished school and attended, first 'Technical College' and then University.
We only received homework then, because, we were lectured to by 'Lecturers'.
Who told us what to get and where to find the information we needed to teach ourselves.