…or don’t contact
Spyrus regarding the 10 minute timeout if you feel
you don’t need to. Whatever.
Here are the results
of my tests:
50195: turns on but not off is
interesting
Unit made it all the
way to my desk in the “permanently on” mode. This unit does not respond to keypad
events at all (no beeps). 5
minutes with battery out cures the problem.
50314: squares mode of
failure
Couldn’t get the
cover off. Stripped the screws
trying.
50200: won’t power on mode of failure. please try to
turn it on a few more times before sending in case its like
50204
Dead
batteries. Wouldn’t power on
with original batteries even after 10 minutes. New batteries powered on right
away.
50158: sounds like it works but was never
loaded
Dead
batteries. Unit didn’t display “Card Manager
1.1.2” when powered on, just Insert Manager Card. New batteries cured the problem. Tried old batteries in another unit
and got a very faint “PAR2 boot” on the LCD. I guess they were right on the edge of
being dead.
50204: working sorta, but maybe I get to watch it fail
again
Played with it until
I got bored (10 minutes – good measurement of attention span) and it wouldn’t
fail.
Conclusions:
Not many. The units obviously have some sort of
power after calc/off it pressed, and this power remains for minutes even after
the batteries are removed. That
is a serious problem in of itself.
One of the underlying premises with the unit was that the worst that
could happen is you have to power off/on the unit to solve a given
problem. This premise no longer
holds true.
Ken
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com
[mailto:owner-bugtrack@dieboldes.com]
On Behalf Of Ian S.
Piper
Sent:
Thursday, March 21,
2002 11:59
AM
To: bugtrack@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: Spyrus units going down
-March 2002
I don't
need to contact Spyrus on the "10 minute battery out" issue. It's right
in operator's guide. Did you not read that PDF file I sent yesterday as
an attachment to this message thread?
We'll
have a chat with the Spyrus folk on that one unit that doesn't power up on
either our application or theirs
(calculator.)
BTW: I'm still
sending those five readers to you. They're already boxed with customs
forms filled out and waiting for pickup.
Enjoy.
Diebold Election
Systems, Inc.