Re: PalmPilot Battery Problem

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

	   I change my batteries this way all the time, not because there is any
   benefit regarding the application of power to the memory per se, but
   because it minimizes the time that there is no power. I find the time
   w/o power much lower when I change 1 battery at a time. Perhaps this is
   due to my own human failings in how quickly I can change batteries, but
   I like to think not. :-)

Everything you've ever heard about absent-minded professors is true
(at least in my case).  So I make a point of taking out both
batteries, putting them OVER THERE, and putting in both new
batteries.  Otherwise it would just be a matter of time until I only
replaced one of them, but twice!

Regardless, the only advantage changing one at a time can reasonably
make is the one you point out:  you spend a shorter period of time
with the capacitor unpowered.  If it matters, he's got a bad capacitor
(or something).
-- 
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D.       Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science       FAX   -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University          http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
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