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Subject:Re: Voltage leak found
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 1 Sep 2015 18:33:12 -0400

At 06:05 PM 9/1/2015, jpalmer@mymts.net wrote:
>Even my treadmill has memory. Doesn't everything have memory these days?

Sure.  But it's a characteristic of CMOS that it only uses current
when something is changing.  If a computer can get ten years worth of
CMOS backup and clock out of a 2032 cell what kind of nerve does a
radio have sucking down 30 milliamps AFTER you've turned off all the
other stuff it apparently thought you needed to have when you were
Not Using It?

Yrs,
d