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Clip+ FM Battery Life

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saratoga:
Recharge the player and this time let it run to zero.

vocrobot:
I ran a battery bench and with FM playing the battery died after 7 hours 12 mins from full.

AlexP:
What do you get playing music?

vocrobot:
At least 12. I haven't done a battery bench for that as I don't want to do to many battery drains but I've seen the battery go down from 100% to 94% in an hour listening to music from both the internal memory and the card and usually the radio doesn't use as much power as the music on the player.

As a test I'm going to try my wife's player to see if I get the same sort of result just in case it's my player but certainly the battery life playing music is better than FM so I don't think it's the battery. I'll let you know what happens.


EDIT: Have done a test on my wife's Clip+; it had drained almost 10% in just over half an hour on FM radio.

vocrobot:
If possible could one of the developers have a look at this and see if battery life while playing FM could be improved. I listen to the radio quite a bit and certainly with the two players I have tried the battery is draining much quicker using FM than music files. Thanks guys.

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