Method for operating an electrically operated portable riveting machine, and electrically operated portable riveting machine

A method for operating an electrically-operated portable riveting machine, the method comprising:

• providing an electrically-operated portable riveting machine comprising:
• a housing,
• a rivet setting mechanism arranged in the housing, the rivet setting mechanism being configured to set rivet elements into workpieces to be connected,
• a collecting vessel,
• a delivery duct configured so that spent rivet mandrels created during a setting of the rivet elements are delivered into the collecting vessel,
• an actuation switch,
• a spent rivet mandrel determination device configured to determine a number of the spent rivet mandrels in the collecting vessel, the spent rivet mandrel determination device comprising an electronic counting device which is configured to count a number of actuations of the electrically-operated portable riveting machine by the user via the activation switch so as to determine the number of the spent rivet mandrels delivered into the collecting vessel therefrom, and
• a user information device configured to inform a user when it is necessary to empty the collecting vessel;
• and
• informing the user when it is necessary to empty the collecting vessel.