Power Outage and Alarm Reliability

[Tony T]

In my experience, typical bedside alarm clocks (clock radios) are plugged in. If the power is out for the house, no alarm goes off. The SB radio is not really different in that way.

Nope, my Bose has a 9v battery that is used for a wakeup 'beep' during a power loss. Many inexpensive alarm clocks also have this.
(and as soon as I get the battery pack option, so will my SB Radio!)

[eap]

Nope, my Bose has a 9v battery that is used for a wakeup 'beep' during a power loss. Many inexpensive alarm clocks also have this.
(and as soon as I get the battery pack option, so will my SB Radio!)

Well if the power is out in the morning there is no hot water for a shower. So who needs to wake up ; )

[Tony T]

Well if the power is out in the morning there is no hot water for a shower. So who needs to wake up ; )

Good point :-)

[mpower9]

You can turn off the boot sound. IIRC it's under the Settings/Audio

HTH

CW

Thanks, Chunkywizard. My problem was that I did not know which of the choices actually turned the boot sound off. None of them sounded particularly applicable. I ended up trying them all. Disabling the sound for "Charging" turned out to do the job (who knew?). However, now that I have ordered the battery pack, I hope that rebooting for power loss will no longer be a problem, nor will all the other alarm unreliability variables.

[notwired]

Nope, my Bose has a 9v battery that is used for a wakeup 'beep' during a power loss. Many inexpensive alarm clocks also have this.
(and as soon as I get the battery pack option, so will my SB Radio!)

You sure about that Tony?

From this link;

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...y#Battery_Care

"An idle battery-powered Radio will automatically turn itself OFF after 20 minutes to conserve battery charge."

Me thinks this sort of negates the purpose of having a battery!! My wife was planning on using this as our main bedroom alarm but she can't risk no alarm in the morning.

Can any of you battery users confirm this?

Also, I realize there is a battery shortage at the moment but why won't they be available in Canada???

TIA

[mpower9]

You sure about that Tony?

From this link;

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...y#Battery_Care

"An idle battery-powered Radio will automatically turn itself OFF after 20 minutes to conserve battery charge."

Me thinks this sort of negates the purpose of having a battery!! My wife was planning on using this as our main bedroom alarm but she can't risk no alarm in the morning.

Can any of you battery users confirm this?

TIA

Good question. Does the software treat a radio with an alarm set to go off as idle?

[tcutting]

ALTHOUGH, I believe if you plug-in a radio which is turned "OFF" it will turn "ON"- at least that's been my experience. So my expectation is that if your Radio is plugged in and you lose power, that after 20 minutes it may "turn OFF" to conserve battery, but then if power is restored it will turn back on.

[mpower9]

ALTHOUGH, I believe if you plug-in a radio which is turned "OFF" it will turn "ON"- at least that's been my experience. So my expectation is that if your Radio is plugged in and you lose power, that after 20 minutes it may "turn OFF" to conserve battery, but then if power is restored it will turn back on.

That will address the situation I experience where the power came back on before the alarm was due to go off, but what would happen if the power was still off at wake up time?

[notwired]

Can anyone with a battery confirm (or refute) that the radio will completely shutdown if the power goes out?

Thanks!

[Chunkywizard]

After 30 mins. But if power comes back before then I think you are fine. I didn't have any alarms active so I don't know if that affects things.

CW