How many posts on battery life and high capacity batteries do we need? There is already a sticky about battery life...
Apparently, at least one more.
I am sure that for the experienced forum - dweller such as yourself, it must be very frustrating to see the same topics repeated and debated
ad naseum.
I for one have found myself in your very position in other fora, and do indeed sympathize. I am not sure, however, that every subject must have one and only one thread - or that new ideas must always be appended to the end of a tome of War and Peace - like length.
To my mind, this topic was focused primarily on the virtues of the seido 3500 battery (albeit with some typical waving of parts private). This, strictly speaking, is at best orthogonally related to the topic to which you refer - how to conserve battery life.
I do hope you do not equate "newness" on this forum with "green-ness" with respect to fora in general. At least in my case, that would be a mistaken assumption

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Cheers, and my apologies for the long-winded (and off-topic) response.
Fakir