Conditioning A Battery; Viewing Battery Details; Documenting Battery Status - Philips Avalon FM20 Service Manual

7 Testing and Maintenance
5 minutes after beginning the charging cycle. If the battery is charged over 90%
displayed until they are charged to 100%. Then

Viewing Battery Details

To view detailed information for the battery, select the pop-up key

Documenting Battery Status

To print all battery information in the
1 Enter Service Mode.
Select the battery status information on the screen or select
2
Status
3 Select the

Conditioning a Battery

What is Battery Conditioning?
Battery conditioning recalibrate the battery to ensure that it has accurate information on the actual
battery capacity.
Why is Battery Conditioning Necessary?
The capacity of a battery decreases gradually over the lifetime of a battery. Each time a battery is
charged its capacity decreases slightly. Therefore, the operating time of a monitor running on batteries
also decreases with each charge cycle.
Battery conditioning ensures that the value stored in the battery for its full capacity takes account of
this decrease, so that the remaining battery charge can be calculated accurately, and the low battery
warning given at the right time.
When Should Battery Conditioning be Performed?
Battery conditioning should be performed when indicated by the battery status.
NOTE
When the battery status signals a conditioning request, the displayed
not be reliable.
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window.
Print Status pop-up key to print the information on the built-in recorder.
Batt fully charged
window:
Battery Status
Main Setup
Batt full (>90%)
is displayed.
Battery .
, Battery to open the
or
TimeToFull TimeToEmpty
is
Battery
may