Saving the battery power, Battery condition display

Chapter 2: Preparation before using the PD204

Saving the battery power

The PD204 offers the following measures for saving the battery power to extend the battery life.

•Pressing the [STOP] key stops the disk rotation to save the power consumption.

It is also possible to set the desired pause release time using the "Pause time" item in the SYS SETUP menu of the MENU mode (the default pause time is three minutes).

•When the internal monitor speaker is not used or when a headphone plug is inserted to the [PHONES] jack, no power is supplied to the amplifier for the speaker.

The following describes some tips for saving the battery power, as well as some notes on using the battery.

•When you do not operate the unit on battery power for a long period of time, remove the battery. Even if the [POWER] switch is set to "OFF", a small amount of electric power is consumed.

•Set the monitor level as lower as possible (regardless of whether using headphones or the internal monitor speaker).

•You should use the display backlight only when needed.

•When you do not use a DVD-RAM disk, remove the disk.

•The load impedance connected to PD204 output connectors should be greater than 10k ohm.

•When converting a balanced output to an unbalanced output, you should not connect the unused pin to the ground pin and leave it open. Though it lowers the output level by 6dB, it does not influence to the audio characteristics.

You can check the current battery remaining amount in realtime by following the proce- dure described below.

Battery condition display

You can check the battery remaining amount in realtime from the [ST BUS] bargraph meters beside the LCD display on the front panel.

By pressing and holding down the [EXIT/BATT] key when you use a BMS battery and the display shows the Home screen (in stop, playback or record mode), the [ST BUS] bargraph meters show the battery remaining amount in % and the display pops up the battery power voltage in V. Releasing the [EXIT/BATT] key returns the meters to the stereo buss level monitoring and dismiss the popup window).

When you use a non-BMS battery, only the display pops up the battery power voltage.

[ST BUS] bar-graph meters

EXIT