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Apex III Dock User's Manual
Apex III Dock Operation
Before operating your Apex III Dock it is recommended that you
thoroughly read the following detailed operational sequences.
The Apex III Dock and External Charger are equipped with a
quick charge circuit allowing an Apex III Battery Pack to be
fully charged from a full discharge condition within 2 hours.
Apex III Spare Battery Pack Charging
1.
Once an Apex III Battery Pack has been inserted into the
Dock charging slot per the previous instructions (p. 3-5), the
charging process will commence immediately and be
controlled automatically by the unit. No additional action is
required by the user, except for Battery Pack removal once
the Battery Pack has been fully charged (the SPARE Batt
LED will glow solid green – see below).
2.
Upon initial insertion of a Battery Pack into the unit, the
SPARE Batt LED indicator light on the top rear of the unit
will flash Red. After a short period of time (less than 15
minutes), the LED will solidly illuminate Red to indicate
that the Battery Pack is being charged in the fast mode.
3.
When the Apex III Dock senses that the Battery Pack charge
state has reached approximately 92% charge, the SPARE
Batt LED will change to solid Green to inform the user that
the unit is charging the Battery Pack in the trickle mode.
The trickle charging mode will continue until the Battery
Pack is removed from the charger.
Since the Apex III Battery Packs use state-of-the-art
Note:
Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) composition, they DO NOT
succumb to memory (hysteresis) loss as do Nickel-
Cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries. Apex III Battery Packs can
therefore be charged while in any state-of-charge and do
not require full discharge prior to charging; however, it is
still recommended that the Battery Pack be fully
discharged periodically to reset the internal gas gauge
circuitry.
COAM30003 Rev. 1.04
3 Dock Setup And Operation
09/03/01
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