From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 6 21:03:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23894 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 21:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA23888 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 21:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 24056 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Mar 1998 05:11:24 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803070440.UAA02245@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 21:11:24 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Old farts blathering (was Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... ) Cc: Karl Denninger , lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.at, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, Terry Lambert , Chuck Robey Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Mar-98 Mike Smith wrote: ... > Hmm, I prefer the Varta 2.2Ah cells actually. The Sanyo ones have lots > of "these are great" legends floating around, but the "really tricky" > charger you're describing is basically just a box with a DC regulator > and an energy polariser crystal, and I still never saw them create > energy from nowhere. Not quite. A peak-detector charger actually pushes a lot of current into the battery very quickly, with amazingly little damage. Energy is not created from nowhere, but comes from your car battery, in the parking lot. > But I 'fess that most of the little driving I did was off-road, where > capacity per weight matters more than peak output. I used to think > those weenies in the shopping centre carparks on weekends were just > that. (Hmm, I guess over here you can't do that sort of thing in that > sort of carpark, what with 7-day shopping and all.) I switched to gas (alcohol) 1/8 scale some ten years ago. Like the noise and the smell :-) ... >> Yup. The WDT board I am polishing the driver for alarms for low-voltage >> on >> a new, EXPENSIVE, rackmount CPU box. No, the WDT is not broken, but the >> 5V >> is really 4.73. You are right, you have to try hard to mess up... > > Have you tried adjusting the output on the supply? Like I said, PC > manufacturers are pretty stingy; it was probably factory-set at about > 35C and 90% RH with no more than a few minutes runtime. I just found this out minutes ago. Then I dod not recollect any adjustments in the power supply, then there is the obligatory excuse wto not honor the warranty sticker on the power supply. The n there is my boss who said ``you are software, not hardware. Let the hardware real engineers do hardware'' and who am I to make a lier out of such an important executive? ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message