On Monday, May 07, 2012 10:50:32 PM Greg Bernard did opine: > Even the cheapie calipers have a serial port like the $16 one I got from > Harbor Freight a few weeks ago. The manual doesn't even mention it but > you can pop off a little cover opposite the battery compartment and > there it is. There are a number of websites that document the protocol > that is apparently used by most if not all the Chinese calipers. Since > I don't have an immediate use for it I haven't tried it yet but it's > cool knowing it's there. > Come to think of it, I did notice a strange connector on one of mine when I took it apart because the conductive magic rubber that hooks up the display failed. I gave it another thou's squeeze, and washed the rubber up with alcohol, along with the contact areas, but I guess those are one time only assemblies as I was never able to get all segments of the display to work again. I guess if you want to have one of those things working, you ought to buy them in 12 packs.
That would be a good idea, but with the ease that those things can be cocked 2-3 degrees, giving a fat reading, I guess you have to have an 'enter' button so you could click it as the display ripples through the minimum (for od's) or maximum (for id's). Without that and a good consistent technique I think I'd druther read the thimble on a std C shaped micrometer. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man. -- Martin Mull ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
