Chip Bearden wrote:

The flight was already on the flash card because GNII had put it there...
but with the wrong date. When I'd let the battery on my Compaq 1550
die after an extended non-flying period, I'd neglected to reset the
date (Problem #2).


I replaced the coin cell that night, reset the date/clock in the
Compaq 1550, and everything worked flawlessly after that.

I have a small collection of Aero 1500's, two of which I like to keep alive
most of the time.
I was puzzled once by how after a day or two in storage, the main and backup
batteries would be dead when off the charger ( I do that becasue constant
charging has damaged main cells in the past ).

I found that by leaving the CF card in the port, the batteries would
discharge after a few hours.
I didn't realize the CF card draws current even when the device is powered
off.

Maybe you guys knew that already.

If you didn't....well, maybe thats why your batteries are pooping out. ; )

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