On Friday 01 November 2024 01:29:28 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
Looked for it, and I found this one:
In the suggested stuff that showed up after viewing that was this one:
A lot shorter, and the unit pictured resembles the one I've got. He even does some USB stuff with it, nice to know that's in there. I like the way he made his breakout connector, though I don't have any of those connectors on hand here. I'll probably just butcher a cable, I guess.
Now whether or not that will turn out to be useful depends entirely on whether that battery tester actually does something on its own. When I plug its USB cable into my hub, it does come alive, and it does seem to do something when I select the print option, but I haven't got the computer to see what it's doing just yet. To go further I'm gonna need to make a USB breakout cord, and hook it up to this. Or at least scope the data lines and see if there's anything happening there.
If the battery tester is relying on the windoze software to command it to do something, then I'm probably screwed.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
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