-=> Mike Ross said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "VEHICLE LED'S" on 09-19-03  11:01.....

 MR> What... you throw batteries at your amplifiers to make the sound? ;-)

No, I said my amplifiers do NOT make much noise at all.

Ah, forget it. It was a joke, based on the common misconception
that the "noise" comes from the amplifers rather than from the
loudspeakers.

 MR> Speaking of throwing batteries, I rescued a cd/am/fm/dual-cassette
 MR> mini-stereo detachable speaker combo aka boombox from the garbage
 MR> heap, and it uses 8 "D" cells... now that's a battery
hog! Something
 MR> must have fallen on it and crushed the cd player onto the main board
 MR> cracking it... an easy fix and it made a nice squawk box for the
 MR> garden. 

Yep. I have a couple that were thow-outs because the inbuilt
cassette mechanism had "died", and the battery terminals had
corroded in one of them as well. But they work well on their
mains power inputs. One is in the workshop, the other one by my
computer.

From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
   "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E

... I categorically deny ever having written a word of this.
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