Hi Roy.

16-Sep-03 04:06:08, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jasen Betts


 RJT> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT>> That's true.  The one time I breadboarded a CMOS ram chip and
 RJT>> put it into standby mode the current draw was *WAY* down there,
 RJT>> barely able to measure it on my digital meter.

 JB>> yeah, microamps last time I measured it.

 RJT> I think I was looking at something like 0.2uA...

 RJT> This was about the same whether I was looking at a 2k or 8k part,
 RJT>  which is all that I had on hand

for a ram chip, yeah, but that battery is also running a clock in the same
chip.

 JB>> could be the motherboard has the wrong charging ciercuit,

 RJT> Dunno,  it's not something I've messed with at all,  just put ram
 RJT> in it and went from there

I've heard  a report of a brain-dead charging setup, something like putting
+5 through 3 forwards-biased silicon diodes...

 -=> Bye <=-

---