hooray for people that can answer their own questions.
I found this thread using the lovely search function:
Does the Mpguino turn off to find out that the backlight only times out but the display itself stays on continuously. I don't expect this to cause any problems, someone says that it draws about 20 milliamps... don't know how much that really is.
I also re read the release one workspace
MPGuino release one workspaceto find more info on the values that I need to calibrate and also the ones that are unimportant.