tracking usage on power tool

Well, I had the idea first and you guys provided me with the implementation :) But you can't get a patent without both, so I'm SOL on the implementation part ;)

You could be co-inventors.

But I hate to burst bubbles... if someone hasn't already mentioned it...

There are electro-chemical integrators, an inch or so long that produce a lengthening stripe when power is applied. I vaguely recall a name like "hour meter" ??

...Jim Thompson

And the device should encrypt the information, so that it can't be easily tampered with...

So, when are you sending us the royalties? ;0

Mike Darrett

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You could try to grow a backbone.

And when they appear at Home Depot this summer, you're both SOL unless you have more $ than whoever's stolen the idea. )-;

Sorry, Rich

Well, the cycle meter was not new, and using it in a power tool is also rather trivial.

The patent is in the 'business method' of renting out by cycle. Is that new? Guess not - cars get rented by distance as well as time.

Nothing new to see here... though one can always threaten to sue if one has deeper pockets...

Thomas

Google 'hour meter'.

$20 for the hour meter module.

Thomas

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That reminds me... the FedEx cards were hacked...

"Bytes 0=D720 through 0=D727contain the value stored on the card, represented in IEEE 754 double-precision floating point format."

Why not just use a 32-bit unsigned long to represent the number of pennies? That should be good to $42.9 million... enough to last at least a few years, until the dollar gets walloped by our crushing national debt...

Something like this: VEEDER-ROOT/DYNAPAR MICROMITE SERIES PC BOARD MOUNT COUNTERS Count Up Only. 0.70 x 1.09 x 0.42" 4-digit, 6mm-high LCD. Powered by replaceable internal 1.5V button cell, 4 years expected life. 12kHz maximum count speed from contact input, reset by removing battery. With supplied bezel, fits 1.16 x .87" cutout. Operating temperature: ?10°C to

Doug T