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My daughter-in-law sent me an email with a video that has the
following advice:

Instead of paying 5 bucks or more for a package of four, AAA
batteries, buy a $4-$5 , 6 volt lantern battery instead.

These are the ones that are about 3" by 3" by 6" and have the spring
electrical connectors on the top.
Remove the label, pry off the top of the case with a screwdriver and
snip the internal wire connectors going to the springs.

Invert the case and dump out 32 brandy new AAA batteries.

Eisboch


???? If this is correct, she just paid you back for your son. Used to
be the wife's family gave up a nice goat or something like that.


I haven't tried it yet. Seems like the last time I opened a lantern
battery it had four "C" cells in it, but that was quite a while ago.
Maybe they have changed the design.

Eisboch


Here is the video. AA batteries, not AAA.

Thanks for the heads up Dick.


Don't thank me so fast. It turned out to be a hoax.

Eisboch


Back to the goat dowry. :-(

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:22:38 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:47:48 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

My daughter-in-law sent me an email with a video that has the following
advice:

Instead of paying 5 bucks or more for a package of four, AAA batteries,
buy
a $4-$5 , 6 volt lantern battery instead.

These are the ones that are about 3" by 3" by 6" and have the spring
electrical connectors on the top.
Remove the label, pry off the top of the case with a screwdriver and snip
the internal wire connectors going to the springs.

Invert the case and dump out 32 brandy new AAA batteries.

That doesn't make any sense.

How do you get 6 volts out of 32 1.5 volts in series? That's 48
volts.

I thought they contained four 1.5 volt square pack cells in series.

I wuz duped.

Been there - done that - wrote the book.

One time, I went to Vermont to participate in a good old fashioned
sugar boil. The tree farmer gave me a tap and a hammer, pointed out a
tree and sent me on my way. I pounded the tap into the tree, but I
couldn't figure out why the tree was screaming.

Turns out it wasn’t a sap maple after all, just a run-of-the-mill
Vermont hippie that the farmer didn't like.

Damned farmer.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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In any event, right now I feel like the horse's ass.

As President Emeritus of the Horse's Ass Club, I welcome you to our
fraternity.

Your official membership card and wall plaque will arrive shortly. :)


Right now I am brain dead anyway. I bought a new Denon AV receiver/amp a
couple of weeks ago and have been pulling my hair out trying to understand
how to program the thing. It worked fine in all the special effect surround
sound modes but would *not* play in simple stereo or direct pure mode. I
had hooked up a turntable and retrieved one of three large boxes of my
father's old LPs, but it just didn't sound right listening to the Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra in surround sound. Then, I discovered that even the tuner
section would not play in stereo only.

I finally got a hold of Denon customer service and they were very helpful.
Turns out the damn thing is controlled by a microprocessor and I had to
"reinitialize" it. (the old, ctrl, alt, delete routine). Now it works
like it's supposed to.

These new audio components are very complex. Assignable audio and video
inputs, upscaling conversions from regular DVD video to near HD quality,
plus a gazillion audio programmable functions for each source. Tomorrow I
am going to attempt to bi-amp the Martin-Logan's using the programmable and
assignable zone 2 output. But, right now I have a headache.

Eisboch

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:31:02 -0500, "Ernest Scribbler"
wrote:

And use them to isolate some hydrogen:
http://www.theodoregray.com/Periodic...1.1/index.html

And blow stuf up!!

Whoo hoo!!

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:39:23 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

These new audio components are very complex. Assignable audio and video
inputs, upscaling conversions from regular DVD video to near HD quality,
plus a gazillion audio programmable functions for each source. Tomorrow I
am going to attempt to bi-amp the Martin-Logan's using the programmable and
assignable zone 2 output. But, right now I have a headache.

Analog dude - analog. :)

All I have to do when I want to change things around is build a
cross-over network which takes all of about six minutes, put a record
on the turntable (a Garrard Zero 100), turn the pre-amp and amps on
and music, music, music.

I kid you not - I have a new TiVO box in my office with the fancy
pants surround system with a zillion functions and I still can't
program the fancy remote to do all the functions. Mrs. Wave
programmed it for me - and I can't use it because I can't figure it
out which buttons to press to get the right piece of equipment.

So I now use four different remotes. :)

PS: Drives Mrs. Wave nuts - I think there maybe a flaw in my
personality that refuses to give in to the single remote deal. :)

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:47:48 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

My daughter-in-law sent me an email with a video that has the following
advice:

Instead of paying 5 bucks or more for a package of four, AAA batteries, buy
a $4-$5 , 6 volt lantern battery instead.

These are the ones that are about 3" by 3" by 6" and have the spring
electrical connectors on the top.
Remove the label, pry off the top of the case with a screwdriver and snip
the internal wire connectors going to the springs.

Invert the case and dump out 32 brandy new AAA batteries.

That doesn't make any sense.

How do you get 6 volts out of 32 1.5 volts in series? That's 48
volts.

I thought they contained four 1.5 volt square pack cells in series.

Make sure you wear the safety glasses when you take apart the next
lantern battery you come across.

So I now use four different remotes. :)

Two words, Logitech Harmony.

Get one... you won't be sorry. You program it on your computer. Install the
software, plug it in (USB), and answer the questions. You tell it the
components you have (TV, receiver, amp, sat/cable box, etc, etc), then tell
it what you want to happen when you press a certain button.

For instance, when I pick up the remote, and press "watch TV." The remote
turns my TV on and switches it to HDMI, turns my amp on, and adjusts my
input for TV, and turns my sat receiver on. It's set up so that if I hit the
channel button, it changes the channel on the sat box, and if I adjust the
volume, it hits the amp.

If I decide to watch a dvd, I press that button, and it turns my DVD player
on, the sat receiver off, and adjusts the input on the amp and the TV to
watch the DVD. Same thing if the kids want to play the Wii. If I press the
main buttton, it turns everything off, or leaves certain components on if
you desire.

I used to juggle at least 3 remotes, and for the last two years *finally*
it's just one. It's truely a universal remote.

--Mike



"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:39:23 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

These new audio components are very complex. Assignable audio and video
inputs, upscaling conversions from regular DVD video to near HD quality,
plus a gazillion audio programmable functions for each source. Tomorrow
I
am going to attempt to bi-amp the Martin-Logan's using the programmable
and
assignable zone 2 output. But, right now I have a headache.

Analog dude - analog. :)

All I have to do when I want to change things around is build a
cross-over network which takes all of about six minutes, put a record
on the turntable (a Garrard Zero 100), turn the pre-amp and amps on
and music, music, music.

I kid you not - I have a new TiVO box in my office with the fancy
pants surround system with a zillion functions and I still can't
program the fancy remote to do all the functions. Mrs. Wave
programmed it for me - and I can't use it because I can't figure it
out which buttons to press to get the right piece of equipment.

So I now use four different remotes. :)

PS: Drives Mrs. Wave nuts - I think there maybe a flaw in my
personality that refuses to give in to the single remote deal. :)

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:00:02 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


I kid you not - I have a new TiVO box in my office

Hey, I'm glad to see you have finally come around and are using a proper
OS, Linux. ;-)

Seriously, there are a lot of hacks for TiVo, especially the Series 1.

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:06:05 -0000, wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:00:02 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


I kid you not - I have a new TiVO box in my office

Hey, I'm glad to see you have finally come around and are using a proper
OS, Linux. ;-)

Seriously, there are a lot of hacks for TiVo, especially the Series 1.

I know - I don't know what series I have. Mrs. Wave bought it on one
of her Association deals - buy one get one free.

To tell the truth, I've only used it once to record the new Discovery
show "Smash Lab".

On Jan 14, 8:47*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
My daughter-in-law sent me an email with a video that has the following
advice:

Instead of paying 5 bucks or more for a package of four, AAA batteries, buy
a *$4-$5 , 6 volt lantern battery instead.

These are the ones that are about 3" by 3" by 6" and have the spring
electrical connectors on the top.
Remove the label, pry off the top of the case with a screwdriver and snip
the internal wire connectors going to the springs.

Invert the case and dump out 32 brandy new AAA batteries.

Eisboch

It was fake, I seen it too, then it got blown out of the water! See
he
http://www.snopes.com/photos/humor/batteryhack.asp