I finally killed a battery on my Rockhopper portable PIMETA.
[On a side note I am quite sure I got a lot more than the 10 hours people are talking about from the one 9V. Easily 15-20 hours.]
Well I was wondering how I would know when the battery was getting close to dead. I had read about others amps (not PIMETA's) and how the sound would start to distort, or the bass would get boomy. Turns out this PIMETA has some sort of shutoff function or something. It simply made a loud pop and went silent except for a faint hiss. I thought my PCDP died, but it was still running. Then I looked and noticed that the LED on the PIMETA was still on...so I was confused. So I raised the volume and the hiss got louder...so I figured something was up with the amp. I put in a new 9V and it was back to music.
Does anyone know what this function is? Can the OP-amps 'stop functioning' if the voltage falls too low for them (from the virtually dead battery)? Obviously LED's need very little power to run, so there was something left in it, but I assume it didn't have enough current or voltage to keep the amp running.
This is a cool function, a definate "RED LIGHT" as far as telling you the condition of the battery.
[On a side note I am quite sure I got a lot more than the 10 hours people are talking about from the one 9V. Easily 15-20 hours.]
Well I was wondering how I would know when the battery was getting close to dead. I had read about others amps (not PIMETA's) and how the sound would start to distort, or the bass would get boomy. Turns out this PIMETA has some sort of shutoff function or something. It simply made a loud pop and went silent except for a faint hiss. I thought my PCDP died, but it was still running. Then I looked and noticed that the LED on the PIMETA was still on...so I was confused. So I raised the volume and the hiss got louder...so I figured something was up with the amp. I put in a new 9V and it was back to music.
Does anyone know what this function is? Can the OP-amps 'stop functioning' if the voltage falls too low for them (from the virtually dead battery)? Obviously LED's need very little power to run, so there was something left in it, but I assume it didn't have enough current or voltage to keep the amp running.
This is a cool function, a definate "RED LIGHT" as far as telling you the condition of the battery.
