Friedmett

Important update! After having the AA compartment attached to the 810 for a week or so with a Duracell I finally when to the powersupply after recording 2 tracks in SP brought the power down to 1 bar rather quickly. Now the manual say 2,5 hour for a full charge so I divided the 150 minutes with the 25 charge time and gave the 810 the 6 charges in a row. Now I do use the original Sony gumstick at all times. Lo and behold the next time I went with the cradle and powersupply it did charge for nearly 2 hours! I changed the Duracell to a fresh one (number 2 in total) and I have done quite a few recordings in SP the last few days and also some listning to the recordings. The power stays pretty much at full with the AA pushing it back up when I do not use the 810.

The way I charge I am still into figuring out. I got a MZ-NF810 portable and it came with original Sony gumstick battery. Naturally being 12 years old it should not work well but any charge with the cradle or direct would be some 25 minutes. Then I can lift and insert then another go for that amount of time in a cycle. I got a replacement from Vapex but funny still the same 25 minute cycle. After some months I have gone back to be using the unit a little more serious and even going to hunt for some minidisc to record on. One thing I have not done is to use the AA compartment and neither did the former owner of 810 so the last couple of days I have had the original gumstick battery inside and a Duracell AA in the attached compartment. So far the power still pretty full up on the bar but did some recordings today and after I was done with the one disc finally getting SP high quality not LP2 stereo the bar had gone to half in battery charge. The idea was to drain the 810 to see if would inflict on the general charge so I listen to the disc I just made and wonderful sound. I left it for a few hours but took another listen and looked at the display. It has gone back up to full power! At the time of writing I am nearly done listening to that recording done earlier once more and it has gone back one bar. I think it would go to full again. However it could also be the power supply. I got the original Sony one and I had to tape it up so the wire bend right before it would charge my 810.