14 Nov 2003, 12:11, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to all:

Hi Roy.

 RJT> Some of you folks might have heard that it got a bit windy 
 RJT> around these parts yesterday...

Did it ever!  Mother Nature was bummed all across the country yesterday,
besides who ever heard of a foot of _hail_, and in Los Angeles at that!

 RJT> At one point the electric glitched,  and several machines 
 RJT> crashed,  but all came up okay.

 RJT> Last night,  a bit after 11,  all power went off,  and stayed 
 RJT> off for maybe 2 minutes or so.  

Lots of people will be without power for a few days if not longer, what a
mess from a "plain old front"...   :-((
...................

 RJT> What,  battery dead?  Ok,  but that should make any difference 
 RJT> if I don't shut it off,  right?  Wrong.  I'd go through and put 
 RJT> all of the settings in,  and then hit "save and exit" and I'd 
 RJT> get the _same_ message!  Go back into setup, and there's nothing 
 RJT> there but the default settings.

I've seen several do that.  Can't prove it, but I suspect that the battery
is _needed_ for the 'save' function. 

 RJT> Checked the battery,  it's a common coin cell,  CR2032,  and 
 RJT> measures 0.5v! Never saw one get that low...  Pulled one off 
 RJT> another board that was laying around here that I can't use for 
 RJT> other reasons (keyboard connector's in a strange place),  and 
 RJT> checked that -- 2.8v -- but it gives me the same result.

That 2.8V on the Lithium batteries is just as good as the .5V, means _dead_
to get anything less than 3.0V.  That 2.8V reading comes from stray bits of
materials within the cell, there's _no_ current associated with the voltage
reading.
.........................

 RJT> Or maybe not,  I feel lousy,  probaby have that bug that's been 
 RJT> going around,  and won't be going anywhere today...  :-(

Hope that's 'only a feeling' and nothing serious comes of it.  Lots of bad
medical news coming from the far western end of PA.   :-((


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)