If I could get to it. So far the drill won't come apart :-(
The charge connector has no voltage on there, just shows an open circuit.
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Duh! All the charger circuitry is in the "drill". The external part is just a transformer.
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With LiIon I want to be 100% sure about that before the thing goes up in a lil' fireball. I know someone who had that happen, couldn't get the fire out, took 10 white-knuckle minutes to burn itself out.
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Jim is right. ISPs were dropping NNTP long before Cuomo opened his yap. He's just an excuse to dump a service that costs them money but brings in no revenue.
It wasn't the AG. It was simple economics or "marketeering", if you must.
The above article reads more like a threat.
Then why did mine keep all the non-binaries?
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I gave up on battery operated tools a few years age. Never enough oomph and always a dead battery. Even the Li-ions we have at work are dead after 3 months.
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Which makes a grand excuse. If there was money to be made they would have told him to pound sand.
Binaries are *expensive*. Text is tiny by comparison.
Sure, but they are awfully handy when you are on a tower or somewhere and the next power outlet is "over yonder".
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With an AG? I doubt it.
All I know is that an IT guy at a large server farm told me that none of this newsgroup stuff shows up above the noise level, no matter whether binary or not. The binaries just roll off the server much faster.
What really hits hard is movies and such where there can easily be a few gigabytes in just one transmission.
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Naaaah! I even have a battery-powered chain saw. Works great trimming my Mesquite and citrus trees, orange, lemon, lime and grapefruit (Texas red).
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I don't. Companies do it all the time when AGs go religious on them.
That's not what the IT people who've sniffed the Internet have said. They're talking about multiple TB/mo for all Usenet traffic, text being a couple of percent of it. The stats are likely searchable.
Binaries can do the same. Bittorrent does the same, though is well cloaked. ;-)
Hell, they're handy when working anywhere and you don't want to drag a cord behind. Cordless drills are the greatest things since sliced bread. My only corded drill is a humongous hammer drill, which I've never used. Other cordless tools are less useful. Circular saws, though I have two, take too much out of the battery so are really only useful for very light loads (great for cedar siding).
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There is an easy solution, not sure if feasible on usenet: Limit file size. That's what lots of contractor forums do so people can post a couple of shots about their dilemma but not just dump the whole enchiladada from the newfangled 8MPixel camera in bitmap.
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My cell-packs are older[1], but they use a NTMD6N02R for the switch. That's a dual n-ch Motorola part.
[1] I bought 500, for general use. And no, I don't have a cell phone.Check out Mouser's low-cost tiny FETs from OnSemi and you've pretty well hit the motherlode. (The catalog or .PDFs are much better for browsing these than are the HTML and search.)
10-15c is pretty good--I'm not sure it gets much better than that, but if it did, cell packs is where you'd find them used. Might be worth cracking one open.These FETs are made to switch LiIons, so they have low Vgs(th) & Ron, and high Qc.
Cheers, James Arthur
Used back-to-back to avoid body-conduction sneak-paths.
I did a LiIon battery controller chip design _many_ years ago... took
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Probably all analog though?
I've designed a battery charger using the bq2057 ICs, and AFAICT it seems to be more of a mix of "traditional" analog and "traditional" digital.
All the sensing was analog, but there was considerable combinational digital on the chip.
This was so far back in time I was still using OrCAD Capture under DOS, and it couldn't do hierarchical... or at least I didn't know how ;-)
It was a 3-cell controller... each cell independently controllable, thus self-balancing.
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Well, guys, yeehaw! Just came back from the road and found a CostCo that still had some. On sale, for 15 bucks, amazing. So now I have two drills and one charger.
Jim, you were right, it seems to be the usual weak DC unregulated wall wart. 9.5V open, 8V under 100ohms load. But I didn't want to take the chance of a kablouie in the new lab here.
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Hmm, Digikey says 25c when buying reels. Not exactly cheap but mass producers have their own negotiating channels.
But: 49mohms guaranteed at 2.5V drive and you get two of them, that is very nice. For those who are interested:
Thanks, I'll check.
I sure will when the first one croaks.
They might be useful for hard multiplexers then. Interesting.
BTW, I found another such drill at a CostCo today so it's now charging. $15, couldn't believe it.
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Huh? Ye olde SDT-III which I still have does hierachy, and does it very nicely. I designed huge 3HE VME-rack cards full of SMT with it. This was way before SDT-386 was introduced and I never switched because the old one was poifect.
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