Chapter 2 Provisioning the T7406 29T7406 Cordless Handset Installation GuideFor this type of environment, contact your authorized Nortel distributor to discuss alternatives.Powering the T7406The T7406 design has taken into account the need to provide a reliably-powered cordless businesstelephone. The T7406 utilizes premium 1400 mAh NiMh batteries.A fully charged 1400 mAh battery should provide four to five hours of talk time in a typicaleight-hour day over, approximately, a three-year service life.The T7406 has been engineered to provide the following talk-time parameters:• T7406 users should feel comfortable using the handset for an entire workday without the needto put the handset back into the charger cradle for charging or topping up.• Studies have shown that users have been able to get four to five hours of talk time from a fullycharged 1400 mAh battery.• Traffic studies have shown that typical users do not usually need more that three hours of talktime in an eight-hour day.• If talk times exceed four hours or the product is to see use through multiple, consecutive shifts,multiple spare batteries are strongly recommended.Battery Charge ControllerThe T7406 incorporates a special handset battery charge controller that employs a four-stagecharging program that sequences charging from a soft start to a fast charge, and then to a toppingcharge, followed by a maintenance charge.95 m/300 ft.107 m/350 ft.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1 2 34 5 67 8 90 #Bldg. ABldg. BBldg. DBldg. CBldg. E