How to power down a KVL-4000?

[mab]

A few months ago I got a couple KVL-4000 keyloaders. (This is the new one, based on an industrial touchscreen PDA and a clip-on security module).

I've always thought of myself as a reasonably smart guy, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to turn the KVL-4000 off other than by removing the battery, The red power button turns the display off, but the thing stays on (and drains the battery within a day). There must be a better way to power this down other than pulling the battery pack!

Surely I'm missing something here. Help?

[CTAMontrose]

Welcome to our world.. we have the same issue so it normally lives tethered to the power cord.

Are you having any issues with the KVL app crashing?

[mab]

Thanks CTAMontrose, at least I know it's not me. The worst part is that this makes it difficult to store in a safe in a ready-to-use state. Sigh.

Yeah, the KVL app crashes from time to time for me too, but not in any repeatable way (of course).

[resqguy911]

We take the battery out.

[N4DES]

Not to revive an old post, but I just received this model KVL with our SmartX project.

Being I charged it for over a day and then unplugged and it will be sitting for 4 days in the safe I guess I can expect it to be dead on Wednesday??

Also was very interesting to program. I ordered it with the kitchen sink and took me a while to figure out the navigation, but I must say the auto key generation is very cool as is the multi-level password protection for Admin and Operator. Coming up with a 15 letter password that I would remember was challenging as well..lol

I didn't have a chance to keyload any radios or the DIU's yet, but I hope it goes as smoothly as programming the keys and macro in the unit.