> -----Original Message----- > From: Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users [mailto:emc- > [email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2020 2:17 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Cc: Gregg Eshelman > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tool presetter > > How about a cheap solid state sensor that detects orientation or just any > movement? Store it business end up and when flipped upright it turns on > fully. Put it back in its storage rack and in a couple of minutes it shuts > down. > Give it a large coin cell and it can run for years. The latest RadBeacon > Locator > Tents (as seen at McDonalds) are juiced up for up to five years. When they > started them in 2016 the company sold them based on an annual > replacement program. > > Dunno what their current specifications are except they have BlueTooth. One > version circa 2018 had a 32-bit ARM Cortex M4F processor at 64 MHz > with 512 KB flash and 64 KB SRAM. Some extreme computing power just to > broadcast its location, in a restaurant where all the tables are line of > sight > from the counter (in most locations). >
Some would consider it an unacceptable health risk but a small mercury switch can sense turning the probe into operating position and would have zero drain from the battery when the probe is not in use. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
