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integrated circuits these days would be driven by a power su --Apple-Mail-62-199963936 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > If output voltage decreases, due to battery fatigue, while these > necessary 8 questions are satisfied then even if there initially was > enough output voltage to set bit 1 with some left over, in addition to > all the other set bits, the voltage may have dropped too low to set > bit 1 by the time question 8 is asked. > One could test this idea by wiring a second 9 volt battery in > parallel with the usual. This would take a fair amount of haywire, so > as a first step I am running this past Naturens and as a second action > will run it past a friend who has extensive electronics background. > > Hi everyone: I am no expert in electronics, although I do know enough to keep from getting electrocuted. I think (and could be wrong) that if there is enough voltage to run the chip, there is enough to run all of it. It would also be interesting to see if there is a separate battery for the display as, depending on the type of display, it may actually consume more power than the electronics. Then again it may have a separate battery. I guess the only way to really see how it works is to open it up, since there does not appear to be a www.howdigitalscaleswork.com! Pat PS: I saw a great T-shirt once that read: There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that can read binary and those that can't. ======================================================================== == Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ======================================================================== == Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ======================================================================== == PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ======================================================================== == Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ======================================================================== == --Apple-Mail-62-199963936 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII <excerpt> If output voltage decreases, due to battery fatigue, while these necessary 8 questions are satisfied then even if there initially was enough output voltage to set bit 1 with some left over, in addition to all the other set bits, the voltage may have dropped too low to set bit 1 by the time question 8 is asked. One could test this idea by wiring a second 9 volt battery in parallel with the usual. This would take a fair amount of haywire, so as a first step I am running this past Naturens and as a second action will run it past a friend who has extensive electronics background. </excerpt> Hi everyone: I am no expert in electronics, although I do know enough to keep from getting electrocuted. I think (and could be wrong) that if there is enough voltage to run the chip, there is enough to run all of it. It would also be interesting to see if there is a separate battery for the display as, depending on the type of display, it may actually consume more power than the electronics. Then again it may have a separate battery. I guess the only way to really see how it works is to open it up, since there does not appear to be a www.howdigitalscaleswork.com! Pat PS: I saw a great T-shirt once that read: There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that can read binary and those that can't. <fontfamily><param>Courier</param> ========================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ========================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ========================================================================== PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ========================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ========================================================================== </fontfamily> --Apple-Mail-62-199963936--
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