Battery life

Kingfisher International bases its design on power consumption, accuracy and speed. We have the longest lasting battery life in the industry, with some products lasting over 1200 hours in normal usage conditions.

Things that drain batteries.

• Colour Screens
  • A prime example of this: Exfo's Maxtester unit lasts only 9 hours. Colour screens not only need constant backlighting, but chew up huge amounts of power themselves. An emerging technology, OLED may solve this problem in the future.
• LCD Segments
  • LCD Segments are the seperations between different parts of an LCD Screen. Each LCD Segment requires power and controlling. Also, each segment will reduce the screen's contrast. Kingfisher has combatted this by using specialised, custom-made, low segment LCDs, rather than the conventional dot-matrix displays, which have a low contrast ratio, high power consumption and require high levels of controlling.
• Embedded Operating Systems
  • Windows CE, etc, use inefficient processors to do a wide variety of things. As Fiber Optic testing is a narrow application (processor wise), we use assembly-level programming to keep battery life running as long as possible. While programming in 'machine code', may be hard work, Kingfisher feels the cost of producing the software is justified by the additional performance.
• Backlights
  • Our lights use a strong light diffusion and only 2 LEDs, or providing light at minimal cost to battery life. By comparison, a standard mobile phone uses over 25 high power LEDs.
• Active Memory
  • There are two main types of memory. Active & Flash. While active requires some current to hold memory, flash does not.
• Warm up Periods