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From: peraino@gmu90x.gmu.edu (peraino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: Saving on batteries
Message-ID: <2469@gmu90x.gmu.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:15:22 GMT
Organization: George Mason Univ., Fairfax Va.
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>From lien@plains.UUCP Thu Dec  7 14:56:37 1989
>Subject: Saving on batteries

>I'm wondndering, would the heme of my battery saving feature actually
>be worth the time of figuring it out and typing it in.
>
>The scheme:  Put the calculator in SLOW (the compliment of fast)
>             and then turn off the LCD. 
>
>Is it conceivable that the above scheme actually would save on my
>batteries?
>
>Thanks,
>Craig.


     If you could hold off on your research, I have already done it for you!
Sometime after next week, I will be releasing an article on battery consumption
in general. I have already done the specific test you speak of, and have
used it in an application that I have not released yet (the alarm system).
To answer your query (I am hoping it wasn't a rhetorical question), you will
only cut battery consumption by 1/3 using this method; speed versus
power consumption is not a linear scale. I will be posting as soon as I can
find a decent way of posting quattro graphs in an ascii form so all can
really read them. Stay tuned everyone!


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