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| duckduck:
Wife asks me to feel her forehead because she thinks she might have a fever. "I might have the 'rona!" No, she does not. Her forehead feels fine. "We don't have any working thermometers and who knows where all of batteries are?" she says. I tell her that as part of my new 'tronics hobby that I have organized all of the batteries in this little bin. I put the thermometer on my bench and I soon realize that the thermometer's little CR1225 has turned slightly negative, so it is toast. We don't have a replacement, so I use my DC power supply and little grippers to supply 3.0 V to the battery leads on the thermometer and it lights up and beeps. I hold the leads while she checks her temperature: 97.3 degrees F (36.3 degrees science). "Oh, thank God! I thought I was going to be hooked up to a ventilator for sure!" She looks over the bench and I can tell that she realizes that this 'lectronics stuff can actually come in handy. Still struggling to demonstrate the great utility of the trials motorcycle and electric guitars. |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: duckduck on May 29, 2020, 09:02:00 pm ---I put the thermometer on my bench and I soon realize that the thermometer's little CR1225 has turned slightly negative, so it is toast. --- End quote --- If there's only one cell, what could have given it a reverse charge? |
| pickle9000:
So you think you can wrangle that realization into some new tools for the test bench? |
| Tom45:
To quote Red Green: If the women don't find you handsome, at least they will find you handy. |
| babysitter:
Tell her if you can get a big enough lab, you might even build her a ventilator.. |
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