See Giles!!?? It was YOU who made the mistake, not the great kennedy!! And he
proved it to you by blaming it on ... ta da! ... the digest server. Of course!
And next time, he'll type in longhand for us mere mortals and our inferior
machines! Thank you Oh great one.
george
P.S. This will be my last reply to one of the great and powerful kennedys' (pay
no attention to the man behind the curtain) messages. So flame away mr k. I
shall defer to your infallibility in the future. After all, we don't want to
clutter up the list with tripe, eh. Like, for example, your pretentious
Socrates philosophical limerick .sig, right?
Kennedy wrote:
> In article , Giles <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Even given the above warning I will stick my neck out and state that
> >the advice given below is incorrect in terms of the amount of current
> >to be measured by at least several orders of magnitude. You will
> >want to be measuring a few milli amps, not amps! ;-)
> >
> >A few hundred amps out of a button cell? - Patent it quick!
> >
> >Giles
> Oooops Giles - even the mA is a few orders of magnitude out! If the OM-
> 4 took 10mA from the battery in off mode it would last less than a week!
>
> Although I typed, and my machine sent, micro-amps as a 'mu' symbol (alt-
> 230), the digest server clearly didn't accept it, so it appeared in it
> as A, with the scale qualifier missing! In future I will try to
> remember to put figures in long hand for this forum. :-)
>
> --
> Kennedy
> Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
> A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
> Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)
>
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