Model 100, again

OOoooh, you scared us! :) Did you used those stupid "renewal" kind? This Renewal and even rechargeables does not give oomph as well. Some really prefer very strong batteries like Energizer, Duracell and compareable quality $1 stuff. It takes a while to find cheap ones that does equally as good ones. I did find specific brand that does pretty good. Racvac, it have no punch at all bec it's carbon based technology and it's good for some other things. Did this M100 needs 4 AA cells? That gives about exactly 6v for that 5v regulator and LCD stuff to work if cells drops past about 1.1-1.2v the usually LCD fades out then crashes the machine because it's 4 cell design. If Tandy designed 5 or 6 cells for M100 years ago, it will run past 1v per cell and extends the running time! Fresh batteries are just about over 1.5volts each. Similar topic on voltage changes: my hearing aids uses those 1.5v 765 type. When that cell start to die, I start to hear distorted sound and general fading (twirls the bitty tiny volume knob) when voltage drops past 1.2v or so then dying to silence. <DART!> Don't have the cell with me when outwhere nearest any suitable resellers. If someone wonders, typical hearing aids sometimes helps hearing impaired but in my case, I'm profound deaf. I can only hear sounds and understand genernally different sounds (screaming, banging, engine purring and backfiring, baby crying, train tooting and such.) But not able to understand normal frenquencies like talking. But I assure all that I can hear the world around me going on. On this side, I saw one worst battery kind when I put 'em into flashlight, it lits up brightly, immiately fades out. (!). They're were new! "small voice tells me to stop this tattling and let relvent topic back on track"... Troll