Everything with a battery should have an off switch

Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by schroeding on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:58AM (#31312665)

I have a digital LCD clock, a giveaway by NTT from a trade fair, that still works with the same single Maxell AA battery since 1998. The battery quality must have been amazing at the time, or the clock uses almost no power. I honestly don't know how that's possible. :D

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by titzer on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:30AM (#31313763)

I remember getting a digital watch in a box of cereal in ~1990 or so. That thing lasted 10+ years on just the battery inside it.

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by Workaccount2 on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:08AM (#31314170)

Ine the same way designers discussed above try and big dick their designs, clocks when through some EE big dicking on trying to minimize battery usage. Same thing with LCDs.

They got them to really low power usage. Some of the ones today would basically last your whole life on a single button cell.

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