25 Mar
2006
25 Mar
'06
5:45 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Allain [mailto:allain at panix.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:24 PM
And I just can't muster up the strength to drive the 3.5 hours to get there.
I'll be there on May 13th though.
What part of CT? I just hate driving, but Harford is closer by car to me
than infoAge, and a more pleasant drive.
Kelly
I think this may have been kicked around before,
but would there be
interest in a once-a-month beer and pizza dinner geekfest
for those of us
in the NY and CT area, and even northern NJ?
Being there, Doing that.
Right now I'm all gungho for infoAge, in Central NJ.
It's nearer than either RCS/RI or the MIT swap and has
lots of cool machines to work on.
Make an appearance for the VCF East this May 13.
John A.
25 Mar
25 Mar
7:17 p.m.
Kelly Leavitt wrote:
And I just can't muster up the strength to drive the 3.5 hours to get there.
I'll be there on May 13th though.
What part of CT? I just hate driving, but Harford is closer by car to me
than infoAge, and a more pleasant drive.
I'm in Poughkeepsie, NY, myself, and, like you, Hartford is a lot closer
than InfoAge for me too.
Peace... Sridhar
I think this may have been kicked around before, but
would there be
interest in a once-a-month beer and pizza dinner geekfest
for those of us
in the NY and CT area, and even northern NJ?
Being there, Doing that.
Right now I'm all gungho for infoAge, in Central NJ.
It's nearer than either RCS/RI or the MIT swap and has
lots of cool machines to work on.
Make an appearance for the VCF East this May 13.
John A.
7:44 p.m.
Post-VCF, we'll arrange a MARCH event in our northern reaches.
Maybe we should bring this thread over to our list, since most people here
on cctalk probably are not interested. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Sridhar Ayengar [mailto:ploopster at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:17 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: NY/CT collectors
Kelly Leavitt wrote:
And I just can't muster up the strength to drive the 3.5 hours to get
there.
I think this may have been kicked around before, but
would there be
interest in a once-a-month beer and pizza dinner geekfest
for those of us
in the NY and CT area, and even northern NJ?
Being there, Doing that.
Right now I'm all gungho for infoAge, in Central NJ.
It's nearer than either RCS/RI or the MIT swap and has lots of cool
machines to work on.
Make an appearance for the VCF East this May 13.
John A.
I'll be there on May 13th though.
What part of CT? I just hate driving, but Harford is closer by car to
me than infoAge, and a more pleasant drive.
I'm in Poughkeepsie, NY, myself, and, like you, Hartford is a lot closer
than InfoAge for me too.
Peace... Sridhar
9:11 p.m.
New subject: battery trolling
I've found a NiMH 6-cell pack that fits exactly in the recess of a
Semi-OT Laptop (HP OmniBook 800CT). (7.2v 3.3AH vs 2.6 AH)
My trollish question: would it be at all safe to let the laptop charge this?
The cell it replaces is LiIon which appears from my searches to be the
more fussy of the two technologies.
Peripheral question. How does one set-up a constant current
circuit, being a non-electrical engineer?
John A.
11:14 p.m.
New subject: battery trolling
"John Allain" wrote:
(HP OmniBook 800CT)
mmm. love my 800ct's. They make excellent portable linux boxes :-)
I have not needed replace the batteries yet - are they hard to find?
I don't know if the cv/cv curve for LI is any differnt from a NiMH. I'd
be interested to hear.
-brad
26 Mar
26 Mar
12:57 p.m.
New subject: battery trolling
I've found a NiMH 6-cell pack that fits exactly in the recess of a
Semi-OT Laptop (HP OmniBook 800CT). (7.2v 3.3AH vs 2.6 AH)
My trollish question: would it be at all safe to let the laptop charge this?
The cell it replaces is LiIon which appears from my searches to be the
more fussy of the two technologies.
LiIon is _very_ touchy -- the cells are reputed to explode if you look at
them oddly. Well, perhaps not quite as bad as that, but you certainly
treat them with respsect.
NiMH is a lot easier to charge, a constant current supply will do. But
that doesn't mean that a LiIon charger is suitable, personally I'd not
use that.
Peripheral question. How does one set-up a constant current
circuit, being a non-electrical engineer?
The normal principle it to 'measure' the voltage across a resistorin
series with the load and to adjust some current control element of the
circuit until that voltage is correct (which means the current is correct
too, of course).
-tony
25 Mar
25 Mar
9:04 p.m.
I'm in Poughkeepsie, NY, myself, and, like you,
Hartford is a lot closer than InfoAge for me too.
Wimps! A once-a-year VCF trip might
be enough to convince you, however.
In Silicon Valley, a neat day out might be to go to the Flea Market,
or a supplier store. I know of nothing like that anywhere here
Still, I'm very flexible, I'd go to Poughkeepsie
at least once to see you and William.
John A.
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