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Won't the epaper pixels wear out after a finite number of transitions? After all, a year has millions of seconds to display...
by limmeau 15y ago
Won't the epaper pixels wear out after a finite number of transitions? After all, a year has millions of seconds to display...
- rkudeshi 15y agoDoesn't look like it shows seconds in the "normal" watch view. Only does seconds in the stopwatch mode.
- GuiA 15y agoStill a valid concern... a year has over 500k minutes to display. I don't know enough about eInk to know if they have a certain "life expectancy", any clarifications by someone with knowledge on the topic would be great!
- carterschonwald 15y agoNo, you're thinking about ssd drives. The issue with e-ink is that pixel refreshes use power, so eink devices are optimized to try to minimize the number of refreshes used. For example some of the newer kindles try to do a screen full refresh every 6 pages so that the battery life is longer. There is no wear for eink, same as for lcds
- limmeau 15y agoIf the epaper display involves white and black pigments travelling physically through an oil droplet, then I doubt that the lifetime of a pixel is infinite. Can't find lifetime specs on eink.com, though, only a claim that 90% of the displays will live 10y at typical usage, whatever that means (one page-flip per minute?).