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Wouldn't it be better to just measure the difference in current draw and calculate battery life? How he is doing it introduces too many variables and won't be accurate.
Wouldn't it be better to just measure the difference in current draw and calculate battery life? How he is doing it introduces too many variables and won't be accurate.
I tried but unfortunately there is not with the equipment I have. The LED's are wave soldered to the board and the only way I could get underneath the LED array would be by connecting needles to the ends of my multimeter, however that would likely break the LED array off of the board by the looks of it if I tried to get anything underneath it. That being said I would likely only get a reading of how much power is being sent to the LED's not necessarily how much power the LED array is using at that time.
Maybe they should have put in less useless gimmick crap like the light, touch pad and speaker and put a decent battery in instead. While they're at it how about make the controller $50.
What was the point of the LED again ?
It has a few uses:
Login player ID w/camera
Physical controller ID (which is player 1, 2 etc)
Correction factor for accelerometer drift
Splitscreen auto config
Player feedback (effects)
All great ideas, but I still think we should have the option to turn it off.
Giving the gamer more options is never bad initiative.
I think the data from this test would be more useful if you had taped down one of the analog sticks so the controller would be continually sending data.
Comparing the power use when the controller is sitting idle is not representative of the actual use case that people are interested in.
Consider the following hypothetical situation: Say the LED increased power consumption by 30% in idle but only 3% when the controller is in use. Measuring battery life in idle would lead you to make a conclusion that would not hold true in normal use.
All great ideas, but I still think we should have the option to turn it off.
Giving the gamer more options is never bad initiative.
must be something wrong with both of my controllers then. I definitely don't get 10 hours.I played a 10 hour session of Assassin's Creed IV yesterday and didn't even get a low battery notification. The battery life is fine even with the LED.
I'm expecting this to be an option in the OS soon.
Try a gaming test, put a game on and rubberband the sticks together and let it play until the controller dies.
Then the controller will be heavier.Can't Sony release an update where they can just dim the LED?
Edit: After reading some more, seems like it's mainly other factors. Bigger battery DS4 incoming?
Can't Sony release an update where they can just dim the LED?
Edit: After reading some more, seems like it's mainly other factors. Bigger battery DS4 incoming?
Current battery is a vast improvement from DS3 specwise, there are just so many more things drawing battery power in this case.
Try a gaming test, put a game on and rubberband the sticks together and let it play until the controller dies.
First of all, this was awesome of you to do, xn0, interesting to say the least.
I wonder how long the DS4 with LED off would last when playing a game, I love how long my DS3 lasts on a single charge, and I'm a little sad to hear it's worse on the 4.
They need to fix this asap. Let us turn it off, this controller dies too damn fast.
The 360 wireless controller (which I still use often because PC) has an always-on LED and its battery life is so long that I actually have no idea how long it is. Tens of hours.
Meanwhile DS4 is 7 hours for me and DS3 and SixAxis have been <6. (lol30lol)
Whats the feasibility of throwing a slightly bigger battery in?
I know you could with the DS3's, but is there enough room in the DS4?
As others have mentioned, I'd like to see active controllers compared.
That there are so many LED's in it will add a little more draw, but really this should be nothing compared to the increased polling (assumed that they got lower latency by upping the polling, can't say for sure) and added Bluetooth audio. There is a reason wireless gaming mice are not super popular and are riddled with battery life complaints.
Hopefully, they update the battery in the future.
I played a 10 hour session of Assassin's Creed IV yesterday and didn't even get a low battery notification. The battery life is fine even with the LED.
I use a Logitech Marathon mouse and I only have to swap out AA's every year and a half or so *shrugs*
I'd like to know if this will EVER be available in North America.side question: is the OFFICIAL Sony charging station available yet?
First world problems: the thread.
Unless you're posting from Africa from a ruggedised laptop with a hand crank for power you should drop the tired drive-by memes.
It's not the LED that's causing the issue. These tests don't show anything other than the fact that a light uses more power than no light, which everyone should have already known. When the controllers are actually being used in games the difference in battery life between the two will be minimal because there are other parts that use far more power. Basically even if his tests showed that turning off the LED increased the charge time from 10 hours to 20 when idle that doesn't mean it's going to last twice as long while gaming. In fact I'm willing to bet that under normal gaming conditions, using both the rumble and sound, that the difference would be insignificant between the two. If all people are worried about is their idle charge time that's what the "turn off the controller after so many minutes" settings are for.
I hope Sony gives the option to turn it off, but it's not going to be the fix you are looking for in terms of battery life.
LEDs require power to run. You are a genius.Haha! People told me I was wrong but I knew it!
You are absolutely correct and I stated this in my test. Of course no LED is going to use less power than the DS4 with the LED on. However I was testing how long the controller lasts at idle, and when the DS4 without the LED lasted over twice as long maybe having the LED on is significant given then 3.65v battery Sony is using in the DS4.
How long did it take for the LED to bring the battery down one bar?
How long did it take for the LED to bring the battery down one bar?
A little over 4 hours.