Cortes battery life

[dan b]

I now have 40 hours of use on my Cortes, and the battery indicator is still showing life in the batteries. I'm amazed at the battery life I have seen, because I have used the back light a few times. I would have thought that would kill the batteries faster, but apparently not. The battery indicator has dropped a bit, but it's no where near the bottom. How low can you let that indicator go before changing the batteries? I checked them and they are all around 1.37 volts each. Am I loosing any performance by running with the battery indicator below max?

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Scully]

Modern electronics have regulators in them that keep the voltage to the circuitry at a specific level. Regardless if batteries are "full" or "half" power, your machine is getting the correct voltage to do its job. You wont lose any performance running wiht low batteries.

 

[dan b]

Thanks Scully. I will keep running that set of batteries then. Maybe I'll get 50 hours out of them. I still think that's incredible especially since the literature states between 10 and 20 hours.

Dan

 

[Corteser]

I have only replaced the batteries once since I purchased my Cortes and the second set is still going strong. Truth be told the only reason changed the first set is because I was going to Rich Hill in Stanton, AZ and I wanted a new set of batteries for my once-in-a-lifetime prospecting trip.