Power FLARM battery temperature

On Monday, March 25, 2013 3:23:52 PM UTC-7, Andy wrote:
The manual is clear on this - "The battery type must be set under the settings menu. Never use disposable batteries when the battery type is set to “rechargeable”." There is no requirement to remove non-rechargeable batteries when connected to an external power source as long as the correct battery type has been selected in the menu! Andy

Well it seemed clear enough from that reference but elsewhere it says this:

"The integrtated charging circuit does not know about the battery setting. It will attempt to charge any type of battery...."

One would be tempted to ask why the changing circuit doesn't know about the type of battery when the user has entered that information. How hard would it have been to disable the charger based on specified battery type? Why does the device need to know the battery type if not for charging protection?

Andy