Dascom DP-510, Руководство оператора

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BATTERY PACK HANDLING PRECAUTIONS
WARNING! Battery Handling Precautions
The battery pack contains an internal safety fuse, but the user must take care to avoid short-circuiting the
contacts by preventing them from touching any metallic object. For example, the battery pack should
never be carried loose in a pocket where it could rub against coins, keys or other metallic objects.
Short-circuiting the contacts of the battery pack will cause a heavy current to flow, which may lead to
excessive heating of the battery pack or any metallic objects connected to it. This could cause burns, or
start a fire.
WARNING! Do Not Try To Open The Battery Pack
The standard battery pack contains five Nickel-Metal-Hydride Cells. Exposing the cells increases the
risk of leakage or short-circuiting.
CAUTION: It is strongly recommended that the external charger is disconnected whenever the battery pack
is removed or replaced.
Please observe local standards for the handling, transport and disposal of Nickel-Metal-Hydride Cells.
BATTERY PACK CAPACITY
The printer is supplied with a 1.8Ah NiMH battery pack. This battery pack should be recharged while installed in
the printer which takes about 15 hours. The capacity of the battery pack when fully charged will normally be
sufficient to print normal text on about four full rolls of paper. However, the amount of printing which can be
achieved depends greatly on the printing density, idle time and other factors such as the ambient temperature and the
history of the battery pack.
With the printer awake but idle, a fully charged battery would last for up to 10 hours, but the built-in sleep mode
shuts down the printer completely, reducing energy consumption to a negligible rate.
In the event of the battery becoming exhausted, the printer will automatically protect its own control circuitry by
entering sleep mode if the instantaneous battery voltage drops below a threshold (e.g. during a particularly heavy
section of print). In this case data stored in the buffer are lost.
The battery pack should be capable of up to 500 complete charge and discharge cycles, though this may be reduced
in very repetitive applications. If a particular battery pack appears not to be holding charge as well as expected, it
may be worn out and should be replaced.
During battery charging the printer may become quite warm. This can crease the paper within the mechanism. You
may wish to feed out some paper before printing begins, either controlled from the host, or by the user pressing the
paper feed button.
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