Extending battery life, Changing the automatic power settings – Unitech PA600 User Manual

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The Power screen appears.

2. The battery menu item displays the status

of the main and backup batteries.

On the screen shown here, both batteries
are Good.

NOTE:

It is necessary to charge the bat-
tery when the battery charge is
Low or Very Low. If the battery
does not accept a charge, contact
unitech Technical Support.

Extending Battery Life

You can extend the PA600 battery life by doing either of the following:

Change the automatic power settings

Minimize the use of backlight

Changing the Automatic Power Settings

The PA600 will enter idle mode when there is no task, or all tasks are waiting for input.
In default setting, the PA600 automatically turns itself off if it remains idle for 3 minutes
and when there is no external charging power connected. Pressing the power button
returns the PA600 to the same point at the time of automatic shutdown.

To change the automatic power settings:

1. In the Power screen tap the Schemes tag.

2. Tap the Switch state to User Idle,

Switch state to System Idle or Switch
state to Suspend
to select from a list of
time periods. The available time periods
are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 30 minutes and
never.

3. This function can also be activated when

the PA600 is plugged into the power
adapter or placed in its docking station by
tapping the Power Scheme to select AC
Power
and then tapping the arrow to
select from a list of time periods. The
available time periods are 1, 2, 5,10, 15,
30 minutes and never.

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