5 REX !!! ? wow! I should have said - losing power and backup battery... which takes a while!
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > > Losing power would wipe the card..so that's a big difference from REX. > > I have to say, this worried me when I first read it, but not as much > anymore as of this weekend... > > I did my first supercap swap on an m100 (my nicad was swollen and starting > to corrode) and with the AA batteries removed from the machine the RAM > contents and system RTC stayed intact and running for 7+ hours overnight. > > (I have to say, after building five REX modules it was almost like > playtime to work on a through-hole component again) :) > > > > > > > > jim >
