I frequently find stores carry batteries that are nearly dead when I open the package. You might try the battery in another piece of equipment before you send it to be repaired.
Tony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Traxler Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Cobolt Talking Tape Measure Has anyone else bought the talking tape measure; I think it's from Cobolt? Bought mine through SpeakToMe. It has stopped working a few times. I don't know what brought it back each time, but this time I think it's gone for good. When I put the battery in, it starts to say "error, memory clear, 0 milimeters". Sometimes it gets out the whole announcement and sometimes it doesn't get out the first sylable. After that, it's totally quiet except for a slight click when I put the battery in and out. When it was working last, it would continue to repeat the last measurement and not turn off. The last measurement, of course, was zero, as I had just retracted the tape. So, has anyone else had such a problem and what did you do about it? Was it a waste of money and can I get a good Braille tape measure somewhere? Thank you much, anybody. Howard K. Traxler, Technology Specialist www.TraxlerEnterprises.com /*-- THINK GOD --*/ To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
