Sonifex COURIER, User Handbook Manual

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Chapter 10 - Battery & power management
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10. Battery and power management
Courier can draw it’s power from a 90V - 250V DC mains supply, from a 12V car
battery supply, from a standard 8mm camcorder cell, or a pack of AA cells. Courier
also has internal cells so that external batteries can be “hot-swapped” without
interrupting the recording process. For more information on these types of power
supply, please refer to Section 3.1.
Courier has a number of facilities for checking the current status and lifetime of an
installed battery as well as audible and visual warnings for low battery status.
10.1. Battery management
10.1.1. BATT/DISK status button
While this key is held a display is shown giving an indication of the disk time
remaining on the PCMCIA disk inserted into the machine and the battery status.
The time is calculated using the current recording conditions, i.e. the currently
selected Record Style.
If you are recording while this key is pressed, the disk time remaining gives an
indication of the time remaining when you pressed the key.
The battery bar-graph display shows the remaining charge, in relation
to a fully charged battery. To the right of the bars are two lines of
text : these show messages describing the
unit power status . This information
immediately tells you the battery state and the power source Courier is operating
from.
Note : this display does not update dynamically while it is being viewed.
Release and re-press the key to see any updates.
Note : Also, refer to Section 5.6 for further information on checking the
battery status.