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| Hi hkrok, look mate they're all the bl##dy same, as soon as the piddly tiny battery goes it's only good for a door stopper. When the cheap digital calipers came on the market, sales of those tiny piddly batteries skyrocketed. I use a Mitutoyo, (no shares or relatives in the company) dial type vernier caliper, cost a leedle bit more up front, but once only and it's always there, (like a good woman) when I need it, not counting down like the bl##dy battery gobbler. When you guys stop investing all your profits in the battery manufacturers company, where the actual profit is made like torch manufacturers, and make a model that will sit in a holding device that will supply enough power to keep it going for about an hour, like a cordless drill etc, then I'll consider getting mine out, ditching it and buying another one, maybe yours. I believe that you can get a high volume capacitor in place of the battery that will store enough energy to power the display for a couple of hours. Get to it man, THIS IS WHAT I WANT, and the customer is always right, first rule of selling! When I was selling, back in '75, last century, the first rule of selling was:- Find out what the customer wants and make damm sure he/she gets it, or your competitor will. Have I just made a wake up call to the digital caliper/tiny piddly battery makers board of directors to reinvest their money somewhere else? If I haven't then just maybe I'll have a go at designing my own, with a 3 hour duration capacitor, and then you might get a bit of competition from the other side of the pond. Never could stand blatant advertising on an open forum. Ian. |
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| 'Lo Foam, have you got any oriental relatives by any chance, maybe just a slight slant in your eye, No? OK so I can't offend you, good. So, Orchid glow flatter on purple people eating and caplaccipator go plop? I would crawl through a mile of sh#t with bare knees over broken glass to get one of those verniers with an everlasting rechargeabler battery, like a cordless vacuum cleaner, that was ALWAYS there when I pushed the on button. If I can't locate such an exotic rare as item I'll 'ave a go at designing one meself, begorrah! That'll show 'em, we Brits are made of sterner stuff. I suppose you could always have a wind up model, like one of those torches that last for 20 minutes with 30 seconds of cranking. I've even considered strapping a AAA nimh rechargeable battery to the back of my current vernier, but if you could get a half sized flatter type AAA then it would work. I've got an Etalon Swiss made vernier that had 2 rechargeable Nicad cells in it, one of the first digitals to come out, circa 1980, but as I was given it for nix, because the glass scale was cracked and the batteries had given up the ghost, it seems like a good candidate for investigation for a rebuild. Ian. |
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