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- From: fj_maddi@csd.uwe.ac.uk (FJ Maddix)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: A4 power down
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.170048.12891@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 17:00:48 GMT
- References: <ARM200-921106135001-62ADAE08*@MHS>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- Ummm... this is a very low-tech solution to your power-down problem.
- I had a similar problem - silly charge / discharge times, sudden power
- loss etc.
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- I discovered that the CATCH on the batt. pack could appear closed, but be
- just 'on the sneck' as my Yorkshire mother-in-law used to say.
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- the consequence - intermittent contact and silly buggers.
-
- So give the weighty old thing a good shove
-
- (the battery, not your M-I-L.
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- Frank.
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