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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Sort tests on the HP-48SX (really on Batteries)
Keywords: Batteries
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Date: 11 Apr 90 04:15:19 GMT
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In article <5039@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ds@dodger.ATT.COM (Doug Sturim,1A-138,2105,TRW) writes:
>
>I too had my Batteries fail after 2 weeks of use and I never ran something 
>for 24 hours.  The voltage on all of the batteries was 1.1V.  It might 
>just be that bad batteries were delivered with the machine.
>
>Doug

Could very well be.  My batteries also read between 1.092 and 1.107 volts.
They were Panasonic alkalines.  I replaced them with Duracells.

Mark Adler
madler@tybalt.caltech.edu