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Subject: Re: Battery test.
Keywords: hp48sx
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.201439.24945@csn.org>
Date: 2 Mar 91 20:14:39 GMT
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In article <27cf06a2:2089.5comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) writes:
>This is very strange.  I tried ON-D  and then G on my Ver D HP48sx with
>week-old batteries and I got the diagnostic with no bars.  I then put in
....
>diagnostic, onw underneat each 210v.  
Let me guess.  You have at least one card in the calc and if you had looked
closer the line would have been under the 0 in 210V.  IF indeed that was the
case, then it says that port 0 (The calc) batteries were low.  If it had been
under the 2 or 1 it would have been ports 2 or 1 with low card batteries, and
apparently, that isn't always reliable if the card is not actually in the port.
In other words, you might not see a bar under the 2 if port two was empty.  I
have also played with this bye taking the batteries out of my RAM cards while
running the test, and found that if I took the battery out of the SC 32K RAM
card in port two I got the bar under 2 and if I took the battery out of the CMT
128K RAM card in port 1 it wouldn't put the bar there.  My theory is that the
CMT card is drawing so little (see previously posted stats) that it doesn't
even know that its battery is missing for a while.  Interesting feature though.

	ian

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