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From: bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Homeminder (x10) problems
Keywords: x10 battery homeminder
Message-ID: <6022@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 15:40:35 GMT
References: <196@racsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
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Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <196@racsys.UUCP> george@racsys.UUCP (George Rachor) writes:
->I have had a GE Homeminder for several years.  Latley though we have had
->to reprogram the machine after power outages.  I opened up the unit to search
->for a battery but was unsucessful.  Anybody know how this unit keeps it's
->settings during periods of no power?  Did I miss the battery?

You might try looking for a big capacitor.  This is what my VCR uses to keep
the clock running during a power failure.
-- 
Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
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Phone: (503) 627-6920       "The biggest difference between developing a missle
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