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battery failure stories wanted for Popular Science (cross post)
I apologize if you've seen this query anywhere else, but I have a
tough work assignment and am trying to reach as many people as possible. I'm a freelance writer searching on behalf of Popular Science for first-person accounts of dramatically frustrating battery failures in portable electronics--cell or sat phones, CBs, laptops, GPS monitors, etc. We thought one category might be people lost at sea because a battery died. To qualify, the battery must have died of "natural" causes (as in, not exploding) in some portable electronic device (as in, not the boat's battery) at an extremely inopportune moment. If you have a story like that, please email me directly at jrm@naswxxxorg (replace the triply repeated letter with a period). My deadline is this Monday March 22nd, but I'll take them up to a few days after. Please feel free to forward this to friends and colleagues. Thanks, JR |
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battery failure stories wanted for Popular Science (cross post)
"JR Minkel" wrote
Pop Science for first-person accounts of dramatically frustrating battery failures in portable electronics--cell or sat phones, CBs, laptops, GPS monitors, etc. We thought one category might be people lost at sea because a battery died. To qualify, the battery must have died of "natural" causes (as in, not exploding) in some portable electronic device (as in, not the boat's battery) at an extremely inopportune moment. If you have a story like that, please email me directly at jrm@naswxxxorg (replace the triply repeated letter with a period). My deadline is this Monday March 22nd, but I'll take them up to a few days after. Please feel free to forward this to friends and colleagues. Horror-stories-at-sea because of hand held equipment battery-failure is a total non-starter. The opposite is the rule, where fixed equipment fails due to fire, immersion, main battery failure, engine failure, etc., and the hand-held battery-powered equipment came to the rescue. The whole premise of the story-line appears to be frivoulous in nature, to imply that anyone's primary safety or ability to navigate, cruise/sail/fish, auto-tour, etc. was based on the sole performance of a portable battery. That is unless you're trolling for stories more likely found in the Enquirer than Popular Science.. Jack USCG Auxiliary, Virginia Beach, VA |
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battery failure stories wanted for Popular Science (cross post)
Amen, Jack.
If there are any stories, they will only point out that the person didn't plan and shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. Electronics save the day, they don't ruin it. I had a friend tell me of a several day seminar he attended on celestial navigation and the use of a sextant. The best lesson he learned is that he should use the beautiful wooden case for his sextant to carry lots of extra AA batteries for his backup handheld GPS. Bill, also USCG Aux, San Diego, CA "Jack Painter" wrote in message news:lgG6c.9898$F91.8899@lakeread05... "JR Minkel" wrote Pop Science for first-person accounts of dramatically frustrating battery failures in portable electronics--cell or sat phones, CBs, laptops, GPS monitors, etc. We thought one category might be people lost at sea because a battery died. To qualify, the battery must have died of "natural" causes (as in, not exploding) in some portable electronic device (as in, not the boat's battery) at an extremely inopportune moment. If you have a story like that, please email me directly at jrm@naswxxxorg (replace the triply repeated letter with a period). My deadline is this Monday March 22nd, but I'll take them up to a few days after. Please feel free to forward this to friends and colleagues. Horror-stories-at-sea because of hand held equipment battery-failure is a total non-starter. The opposite is the rule, where fixed equipment fails due to fire, immersion, main battery failure, engine failure, etc., and the hand-held battery-powered equipment came to the rescue. The whole premise of the story-line appears to be frivoulous in nature, to imply that anyone's primary safety or ability to navigate, cruise/sail/fish, auto-tour, etc. was based on the sole performance of a portable battery. That is unless you're trolling for stories more likely found in the Enquirer than Popular Science.. Jack USCG Auxiliary, Virginia Beach, VA |
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battery failure stories wanted for Popular Science (cross post)
William G. Andersen wrote:
Amen, Jack. If there are any stories, they will only point out that the person didn't plan and shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. Electronics save the day, they don't ruin it. I had a friend tell me of a several day seminar he attended on celestial navigation and the use of a sextant. The best lesson he learned is that he should use the beautiful wooden case for his sextant to carry lots of extra AA batteries for his backup handheld GPS. Bill, also USCG Aux, San Diego, CA "Jack Painter" wrote in message news:lgG6c.9898$F91.8899@lakeread05... "JR Minkel" wrote Pop Science for first-person accounts of dramatically frustrating battery failures in portable electronics--cell or sat phones, CBs, laptops, GPS monitors, etc. We thought one category might be people lost at sea because a battery died. To qualify, the battery must have died of "natural" causes (as in, not exploding) in some portable electronic device (as in, not the boat's battery) at an extremely inopportune moment. If you have a story like that, please email me directly at jrm@naswxxxorg (replace the triply repeated letter with a period). My deadline is this Monday March 22nd, but I'll take them up to a few days after. Please feel free to forward this to friends and colleagues. Horror-stories-at-sea because of hand held equipment battery-failure is a total non-starter. The opposite is the rule, where fixed equipment fails due to fire, immersion, main battery failure, engine failure, etc., and the hand-held battery-powered equipment came to the rescue. The whole premise of the story-line appears to be frivoulous in nature, to imply that anyone's primary safety or ability to navigate, cruise/sail/fish, auto-tour, etc. was based on the sole performance of a portable battery. That is unless you're trolling for stories more likely found in the Enquirer than Popular Science.. Jack USCG Auxiliary, Virginia Beach, VA As a sailing electronics nutter, I have been repeatedly told by fellow-posters to alt.uk.sailing NG that they don't rely on electronics, and that the probability of power failure lurks in every boat, therefore they only use traditional methods of navigation, sextants, rulers, etc., with some electronics backup. GPS? Rumour has it that the Yanks are going to turn it off any time soon! What complete bull***t! Despite my inviting others to let us have stories of such catastrophies, none have yet come forward, and I must conclude that you and I are right, and everyone else (in the UK) is out of step! Dennis. Remove "nospam" from return address. |
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