Re: TI-H: Turbo 85 problem
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Re: TI-H: Turbo 85 problem
remember to reset the memory on both?
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:09:03 -0700 Thayne Miller <yomaster@geocities.com>
writes:
>Well, its not actually a problem...
>I have turboed 6 85s with a switch successfully and finish turboing
>one
>yesterday. The one that I turboed yesterday is a rom version 10.0 and
>is
>only several days old (off the shelf). I compared speeds of this new
>85
>with my own personal one (10.0 and 1 year old) and noticed that the
>new
>85 is FASTER! I used the same batteries in each one and switched them
>around a lot and I can't figure out why it is faster!!! The weird
>thing
>is, is that it's faster in normal mode and turbo mode.
>Here are my hypotheses:
>
>1) Newer 85's are faster than old ones
>
>2) I fried a cap while turboing (don't know which calc)
>
>I don't know much about electronics, but let's say I fried the 1 pF
>cap
>in the new calc. well when wired in parallel (normal) with a 33 pF
>cap,
>normally it would result in 34 pF total capacitence. When wired in
>series (turbo) the capacitence would be .97059 pF. Let's say the 1 pF
>cap was fried. Would the normal capacitence be 33 pF and the turbo be
>0 pF??? Please help me out with this one. If it's true that I fried
>the
>1 pF cap and my logic is correct. recommend not even using a 1 pF cap
>because it is LOTS faster and I haven't seen any errors at all!!!
>
>Just to get one thing straight...is Cp=C1+C2 ; Cs=(C1*C2)/(C1+C2)
>correct? those are the formula's I used above.
>
>__
>Thayne Miller
>Email: yomaster@geocities.com
>Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/5084
>
>"Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, fitestine, pig-ignorance
> I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage!"
> -Monty Python
>
>
>
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