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From: ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Panasonic speakerphone forbids alkaline batteries
Message-ID: <11319@teda.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 14:44:40 GMT
References: <1990Jul7.231235.6125@zoo.toronto.edu> <35313@vrdxhq.verdix.com>
Reply-To: ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai)
Organization: Teradyne, EDA
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In article <35313@vrdxhq.verdix.com> bill@vrdxhq.verdix.com (William Spencer) writes:
-in article <1990Jul7.231235.6125@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) says:
-> Picky, picky, picky. :-)  There are various wet-cell chemistries around,
-> most of them with fairly specialized uses only.  (For example, there's one
-> that uses plain salt water as the electrolyte. 
-While we're getting picturesque, I saw a radio designed for nuclear survival.
I was just on an airplane flight, and the batteries that powered the blinky
lights on the floatation vests used salt water as both the electrolyte and
the power switch.  As soon as the vest hits the water, it enters the battery
and turns on the light.
/mike

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