-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> (*) Note: some of the supplies you saw in the lab in Taipei are actually > extremely fast and should simulate a battery quite accurately. They > also cost about as much as a good oscilloscope ... No they would simulate a battery badly, they have pretty much infinite "stiffness" for any current below their limit threshold. If you pull 300mA or 1mA the bench supply provides 4.00V or whatever you set. A battery doesn't act like that. > Bench supply tests would still be useful for tracking down leaks and > such. It's fine for just assessing the different current drawn at different supply voltages. But the fact everyone was using them is a bigger problem in a different way -- nobody but NOBODY was testing the device behaviours with a battery as it will ship. It was like a silent agreement nobody wanted to "go there" because of the suspicion bad monsters were hiding. That sucks. We are quite well armed to kill monsters now so its fine to let us know where they might be hiding even if it sounds frightening to start with. For sure the guy that said he saw a bad thing isn't going to get BLAMED for it, he's going to get THANKED. - From now on every time we see development taking place in a different way than the usage scenario, we should become immediately suspicious somebody detected monsters and routed around the nest and go stick our nose into what is going on. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHrEhLOjLpvpq7dMoRAqcoAJ0V17NUZiXVSZOmg/ZFPpExi+7FAQCghRXp 2v9bS0lOzyaGbjYdafx+1vM= =+lrY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
