No gaming consoles and no phone for repair this time. Not even a stupid car starter battery asking for being replaced at the worst possible moment.
No, this time it is just a very cheap and more or less new "weather station": thermometer (in/out), hygrometer(in/out), barometer, clock/calendar (and lunar phase). It came in a condition that I would call defective. Sending it back was not a good option though: The display is very weak unless the alkaline batteries are next to 100% full. Two or three weeks after inserting brand new batteries the display became increasingly hard to read – I had to use awkward poses from the side to really see the values. If I sent it back, they would probably have inserted new batteries, looked at the display and said: "Customer needs glasses; everything is fine. No warranty case."
Since the thing was really cheap, it wasn't worth the hassle of writing an essay, possibly paying shipping costs back and forth and hoping for the best (a replacement working better and not having the same issue).
I hear my father saying: "Throw it away and buy another one."
I see some wisenheimer write useless stereotyped "You get what you pay for!"-phrases.
What I say is: The display works with 3.1V, so it will get 3.1V – from some even cheaper step-up module (€1.20). This lets me use bigger, rechargeable batteries anyway.
What could cause this problem? Shouldn't the device include a voltage converter keeping voltage for the display constant over the battery lifetime? Or are those cheap displays normally more lenient with input voltage range and mine is either defective or simply bad? Anybody got an idea why it works with 3.1V to 3.0V and starts fading below 2.9V (a point where two alkaline cells together are still in the prime of their youth).
No, this time it is just a very cheap and more or less new "weather station": thermometer (in/out), hygrometer(in/out), barometer, clock/calendar (and lunar phase). It came in a condition that I would call defective. Sending it back was not a good option though: The display is very weak unless the alkaline batteries are next to 100% full. Two or three weeks after inserting brand new batteries the display became increasingly hard to read – I had to use awkward poses from the side to really see the values. If I sent it back, they would probably have inserted new batteries, looked at the display and said: "Customer needs glasses; everything is fine. No warranty case."
Since the thing was really cheap, it wasn't worth the hassle of writing an essay, possibly paying shipping costs back and forth and hoping for the best (a replacement working better and not having the same issue).
I hear my father saying: "Throw it away and buy another one."
I see some wisenheimer write useless stereotyped "You get what you pay for!"-phrases.
What I say is: The display works with 3.1V, so it will get 3.1V – from some even cheaper step-up module (€1.20). This lets me use bigger, rechargeable batteries anyway.
What could cause this problem? Shouldn't the device include a voltage converter keeping voltage for the display constant over the battery lifetime? Or are those cheap displays normally more lenient with input voltage range and mine is either defective or simply bad? Anybody got an idea why it works with 3.1V to 3.0V and starts fading below 2.9V (a point where two alkaline cells together are still in the prime of their youth).
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