AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Engel <jengeltx@y...> wrote:
>
> --- Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@y...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just received a Butterfly as a promotional product
> > from Atmel.
> > 
> > battery was dead.  Not that I look a gift horse in
> > the mouth, but it
> > did ruin the surprize.
> > 
> > And, there was no real anything for instructions
> > with it.
> > 
> > Of course I want to play with it and make it go beep
> > and have it make
> > some LED's dance.....
> > 
> > is there a Butterfly group that would help me get
> > started ?
> > 
> > Is there any free software to play with for it ?
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> Those batteries are supposed to have a 3 or 5 year
> life (I'm going by memory, so watch out!).  Make sure
> you've removed the paper tab keeping the battery from
> making connection.  I thought my battery was bad, too.
> 
> No, I haven't found any real software to run on it.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jeff Engel
> Arlington, TX
> 
> 
> Happiness is - positive intake manifold pressure.
> 


The cardboard came out upon opening, it was verified when I pulled the
battery the first, second, third, fourth......  about 20 or more times
playing with it, looking for a pos or neg indication.

no plastic wrap. 

the battery tests bad.


Yes, I too thought that the battery should last 3 or more years in
storage, and maybe that long when used in a power conservatin mode.

And, it is a SONY SR2450, so I would expect that the brand name would
be a decent battery.

Dave