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From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Subject: First question.
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Summary: Battery quirks.
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 04:47:10 GMT
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I hope that this group can actually work.. 

So, here is my first post to comp.sys.hp48.d (ooooooooo doesn't that sound
important?)

I recently started seeing the little alarm indicator come on when I 
had no alarms and the calculator was thinking hard.. I realized 
that the batteries might be low so I went to the diagnostic mode to check 
the batteries and it shows me that all the batteries are fine.. 
I then go back and play with the calc some and find that it does it 
again.. 

So this time, I take out my multimeter and check the voltages across the 
three batteries.  I get the following numbers.
1.23 V
1.22 V
.9 V 

Now that is quite a significant jump.  I know that this sort of thing has 
cropped up before and I don't remember if it was the hp48 or the hp28 but
it was definately the same problem.  I don't remember if it was 
ever resolved or not but I would like to know what people think of this.

	ian

-=Runaway Daemon=-