Canon 9173B004, 9175B001, 9176B002 Built-inRechargeable Lithium Battery, Disposal, 178 Š Additional Information, •Do not attach any labels or stickers on the memory card

•Do not leave memory cards in places subject to high humidity and high temperature.

•Do not disassemble, bend, drop, or subject memory cards to shocks and do not expose them to water.

•Check the direction before inserting the memory card. Forcing a mem- ory card into the slot if it is not correctly oriented may damage the mem- ory card or the camcorder.

•Do not attach any labels or stickers on the memory card.

•Secure Digital (SD) memory cards have a physical switch to prevent writ-

ing on the card so as to avoid the accidental erasure of the card’s con- tent. To write-protect the memory card set the switch to the LOCK position.

LOCK switch

Built-in Rechargeable Lithium Battery

The camcorder has a built-in rechargeable lithium battery to keep the date/time and other settings. The built-in lithium battery is recharged while you use the camcorder; however, it will discharge completely if you do not use the camcorder for about 3 months.

To recharge the built-in lithium battery: Connect the compact power adapter to the camcorder and leave it connected with the camcorder off. The built-in lithium battery will be fully charged after about 24 hours.

Disposal

When you delete movies or initialize the memory, only the file allocation table is altered and stored data is not physically erased. When you dispose of the camcorder or memory card or give either to another per- son, initialize the camcorder’s built-in memory (Bonly) or memory card using the [Complete Initialization] option (A29). Fill it up with unimportant recordings, and then initialize it again using the same option. This makes recovering the original recordings very difficult.

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