Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!peraino
From: peraino@gmu90x.gmu.edu (peraino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Power consumption of the HP-28s.
Message-ID: <2359@gmu90x.gmu.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 20:24:49 GMT
Organization: George Mason Univ., Fairfax Va.
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     In the very near future, I will be posting an article giving
in-depth information on power consumption statistics for the HP-28s.
In it, you will find many interesting things. Here is a preview:

     A while back someone posted an undocumented storage mode for the
calculator; if you press on-enter-backspace at the same time, the
calculator will beep and shut off. Even the internal clock stops!
When the calculator is normally off (NOT in storage mode) it draws
13.5  uAMPS. In "storage" mode, it draws 106.2 uAMPS!! This is 7.8 times
the current drain! So what is "storage" mode really doing?

Stay tuned...


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