That is standard industry termnology for meters. It does not make sense from a mathmatical standpoint, but is an easy way to indicate a meter that has a 0 or 1 as the first digit. If the first digit can only be a 0 or one, then add .5 to the number of digits behind it.
Marshall "James Osbourne, Holmes" wrote: > Weird. So 0.9=0.5 > > James-Osbourne: Holmes > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>TDS/PWT meters > > That is normally called 3 1/2 digits, not 4. > > Marshall > > Trem wrote: > > > Hi Jimmy Joe, > > > > The PWT does go higher than 2 places plus the decimal. It reads up 199.9. > > See my post to Ken this morning. > > > > Trem > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "J J" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:23 PM > > Subject: RE: CS>TDS/PWT meters > > > > > Ode Coyote says: > > > <snip...> > > > > The PWT actually has a 4 digit display and pegs out at 999.x uS just > > > >before it shows a 1 in the far left saying it can't read that high or > any > > > >higher. > > > <...snip> > > > > > > Ken: You actually have a Hanna PWT with a 4 digit display? The attached > > > PWT.JPG from the Hanna website shows only 3 digits. Can't see the > decimal > > > point, but it sure looks like only 3 digits. Do you mean that when the > uS > > > reading gets above 99.9 another digit shows up on the left and the meter > > > starts reading 100.0 or more, therefore becomes 4 digits? > > > > > > Jimmy Joe > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free! Try MSN. > > > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp > > > > > > > > > -- > > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > >
