Re: 5gb PCMCIA hard drives and familiar?

> I was just talking to my boss about building a small external battery pack
> that would fit in my fanny pack along with the ipaq, keyboard and expansion
> slot. When I find a configuration that works I'll let the list know.
>
> Speeking of which, when you have power plugged in to either the backpack, or
> the iPaq apm reports the system is attached to ac. So does the backpack
> charge from the cradel w/o being plugged in? I havn't tested this but it
> would make building a power pack easer.

        My friend has a thought of this a while ago. I assume the external
battery pack will be plggued to where you usually connect the charger.
Now, with the external battery pack plugged there, I think the ipaq will
recognize that as a normal charger too. That is, the ipaq will charge the
internal battery using the power of the external battery, which is bad. We
probably don't want to waste the power for that.

        I'm wondering if this really happens, and also if there's a
solution for this.

        Also how will the apm regard the external battery as? Probably a
normal charger again? And so we cannot tell how much the external battery
has been used.

Pigeon.
Received on Wed Jul 25 22:24:12 2001