99.9% dependent versus battery life--query

battery life

by Tracey_E - 2016-10-14 12:22:25

Many things affect battery life, only a small portion is how often it fires. Other factors are how much juice it takes to get the heart to respond, safey margins, extra bells and whistles we use. They are amazing pieces of technology! 

Wow!

by Grateful Heart - 2016-10-14 15:30:24

I never did the math but I pace 100% and sometimes overtime.  :)

My device has been going for almost 8 years.  Now I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Grateful Heart

Battery Life

by Good Dog - 2016-10-14 16:24:40

I have a high setting of 120 bpm and a low of 50 bpm. I do not use rate response.With those settings my previous three generators have averaged 10 years. My last generator lasted almost 12 years. I took that one to the max. I had my previous generators changed early (before the battery reached the 3 month optional change-out time period).

 I certainly agree with Tracey that battery life is dependent upon many different things. There are so many new bells and whistles such as the amount of time it records data, and what it records. etc. so it depends.

Here's the math:

by donr - 2016-10-16 02:31:15

60 BPM X 60 Min/Hour X 24 Hr/Day X 30 Days/Mo = 2,592,000 Beats per Month.  That's what Tracey's PM does for her Ventricles CONTINUOUSLY for years on end!  The Ventricle is the heavier demand part of the pacing.  That's at the base rate.  `Your heart doesn't beat at that rate continuously, nor does it beat at 120 BPM continuously.  Average is probably about 90 BPM, so multiply the 2.6 Million per month by 1.5 & you have roughly 3.9 MILLION beats per mionth.  Those little batterioes have a LOT of energy stored in them - don't worry about it.  thewy laast for years.  My first one lasted 7 yrs.  Current btry is pushing 7 yrs now.  That's  LOOOOOOOng time.

Donr