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If you think this is bad then you guys should go play a Wii U with the gamepad's horrible battery life. I think Ninteneo came out with a battery pack for that though so maybe Sony will do the same thing.
A little over 4 hours.
If you think this is bad then you guys should go play a Wii U with the gamepad's horrible battery life. I think Ninteneo came out with a battery pack for that though so maybe Sony will do the same thing.
Hmm, I thought it took 13 hours to get down to 1 bar when idle, but I guess you didn't specifically say that. Can we get a more complete summary?
That's pretty significant. So let's assume 8 hours battery life. It takes about 2.5 hours to drain one bar under normal usage. Damn the LED takes a big chunk out.So we are looking at around 40% battery usage by the LED during normal usage?
I didn't read the whole thread, so maybe this was answered, but wouldn't the easiest way to test this be to test the amperage draw on the battery with the LEDS on and then with them off?
the battery life or the LED doesn't even bother me, I just got two controllers if one dies i switch and also, l'm really close to the PS4 so I can plug it in and not have to worry about it, but it would be cool to have a option to turn it off.
Didn't even think of doing this. I just did the reading.
With LED on .08A (stable)
With LED off . 03A to .04A (variable)
The DS4 has a 1000mAh Li-ion battery therefore the idle battery life would be calculated as:
LED enabled: (1000/80) = 8.75 hours
LED disabled: (1000/40) to (1000/30) = 17.5 to 23.3 hours
Lol that cable is trash most of the time. If you're sitting down it works fine, but if you try to play laying down or something, you're gonna have a bad time.
Honestly though... If you're playing your PS4 for more than 8 hours at one time you should rethink things. Just play for say 4-5 hours each night and plug it in and charge when not playing. Simple fix.
They did with the DS3, so I think there is a very good chance they will.
They need to give us an option. I would rather get a lot more battery life than have that dumb light on.
Didn't even think of doing this. I just did the reading.
With LED on .08A (stable)
With LED off . 03A to .04A (variable)
The DS4 has a 1000mAh Li-ion battery therefore the idle battery life would be calculated as:
LED enabled: (1000/80) = 8.75 hours
LED disabled: (1000/40) to (1000/30) = 17.5 to 23.3 hours
The DS4 has a cluster of massively brighter LEDs specifically designed to be tracked easily by a camera. It's a totally different thing.you all realize that the DS3 also had glowing LEDs that you couldn't turn off right...?
The DS4 has a cluster of massively brighter LEDs specifically designed to be tracked easily by a camera. It's a totally different thing.
Without seeing any specs or indeed seeing one in person, I can still tell you they are actually brighter.are they actually brighter or is one just behind clear plastic and one is behind black plastic?
That's... Odd. I thought in your test that you got 13+ hours out of the LED on controller? At 8.75 then that would pretty much mean that the controller uses pretty much the same amount of power when in use than when it is not.
Edit: I'll also add the new info to the OP.
Im sorry, but the calculation seem off.
1000/80 = 12.5 h
1000/35 (average of 30 and 40) = 28.6 h
These seem to match more closely with your actual test.
But more importantly, i doubt these will even matter when rumble and mic and more power hungry components are draining the battery. Any idea how much rumble draws for a comparison? (if it was anything from 5-10 times these values then the LED's can be practically ignored as they wont make much of a difference)
Someone link this thread to Yosp.
I believe to calculate battery life you actually need to convert amp draw into mAh. I used the following calculator for my results:
http://ncalculators.com/electrical/battery-life-calculator.htm
Of course I could be wrong, I'm a bit out of my depth here.
For example, a circuit connected with 800 mAh current rating and it is connected to the load of 40 mAh. Then the battery will last for 20 hours.
I believe to calculate battery life you actually need to convert amp draw into mAh. I used the following calculator for my results:
http://ncalculators.com/electrical/battery-life-calculator.htm
Of course I could be wrong, I'm a bit out of my depth here.
That calculator is wrong
If you follow their own example returns you 14h not that 20h
Thats weird, if you divide mAh by mAh you get a dimensionless value. But dividing mAh by mA should give you hours as a result. Anyways I found a different site that gives the result i aquired.
http://www.referencedesigner.com/cal/cal_54.php
Idk, just seems off.
Some do I believe but I think the main purpose was to be used with the camera that I believe they originally were going to bundle in***
***`Personal opinion
Just hope they update the firmware to let us turn it off as I can see the novelty wearing thin quickly
I was thinking the same thing. Now I really don't see any reason they are not giving us the option to turn it off.
Turn of?? If you mean turn off then no need to blow a gasket, you already can do that without modifying anything.Sony should patch in an option for users to turn of the DS4.
Would love to see a tutorial on how to turn the leds off.
Can't see it in that pic, would it be as simple to remove the LED from the circuit board and keep the microUSB connection? (for someone with enough soldering experience)It is really simple to disable the LED and save battery life but it is not practical because you actually disable the microUSB on the DS4 as well (since the LED and USB are on the same board) and therefore disable the ability to charge the DS4.
To easily disable the LED just take the 4 screws out of the DS4 pop it open and pull this cable:
Nope, in another thread I complained about the battery life and suggested that Sony should allow us to turn the LED light off. Another poster told me that the light barely affected the battery life at all. Turns out I was right.LEDs require power to run. You are a genius.