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Re: no lab facilities (stopwatches)

The $6 Cenco versions are also OK. From my experience, the time consuming
and painful process of replacing batteries (multiple very small screws) in
most of the digital designs makes it 'cost-effective' to throw the suckers
away when the batteries give out (about 2 years). With a good spring
stopwatch running $45 and the better digitals at $20-50, in most lab
situations, 'cheap' is the way to go.

Rick



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A Cohen" <bbq@ESU.EDU>

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Chuck Britton wrote:

At 12:36 PM -0500 1/26/00, Richard W. Tarara wrote:

you can get decent stop watches for under $10,
^^^^^^
In this great country of ours (US of A - sorry for the moment of
chauvinism) the word 'DECENT' means VERY different things to
different people. Especially here in the Bible Belt.

I would NOT call the <$10 stopwatches 'decent' unless your budget for
yearly expendables is sufficient to replace them regularly. YMMV but
I find that you 'get what you pay for' with stop watches.

FWIW, I've found the student timers from PASCO ($63 per dozen) pretty
reasonable and reliable for their price. Previously, I bought the $6
K-mart type stopwatches which typically did not make it through the
semester.

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