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Old February 7th, 2008, 10:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Question for Infill G4 Owners

I have recently got my Infill G4 unit fitted to my 2004 Audi A4.

I'm almost completely happy with everything so far.

Only issue is regarding keeping the thing in Standby.

At the moment i have centrafuse put the unit into standby when the ignition goes off. This works fine, and if i return to the car in less than 5 hours it will resume from standby and i'll be enjoying my windows powered goodness in less than 5 seconds.

However if i come back after 5 hours (eg the next day). The unit boots from scratch. It seems that the small amount of power needed to keep the unit in standby is being cut and it's being forced to boot up again.


The car audio people said that this is perfectly normal as it cannot be allowed to constantly drain the battery like that.



So my questions are:

1) Is it normal to cut the power off after so long? will the unit really eventually drain the battery (in such a short period of time)?

2) Does anyone use standby like this without any problems?

3) Is there any way around this? (apart from hibernation)


Thanks
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