Re: Battery power

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

As a small ironic reprise,  I have often been surprised at how "wise" one
can appear by simply stating the obvious; as Herb says the obvious isn't
always obvious.

Joel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert H Gottlieb [mailto:herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:35 AM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Re: Battery power
>
>
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 06:25:14 -0500 Justin Parke
> <FIZIX29@AOL.COM> writes:
> > herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM wrote:
> >
> > > The obvious answer is to use more series resistance in the
> > > circuit to limit the current that the button-cell batteries must
> > > supply.
>
> Justin Parke retorted,
> > It seems to me that if the answer was obvious the question would not
> > have been asked.
>
> *** Not necessarily, Justin. It often happens that the obvious is not
> always obvious to everyone, all of the time.  Haven't you ever
> kicked  yourself for overlooking something that should have
> been obvious to you, and wasn't?
>
> Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where the obvious is not always obvious)