[Coco] 6309/6809 power consumption

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 17 October 2019 19:42:00 Roy Justus via Coco wrote:

> I am doing fine thanks for asking.my nephew got a stent in his artery.
> You follow the doctors advice and get better.we need you....
>
Well, with the pulmonary embolism about 5 years ago, one could say I've 
had my 10 minute warning buzzer. That near shutdown hurt my thinker, as 
it was badly starved for oxygen and just barely functioning until they 
started the clot buster shot so you won't see many of the moments of 
lucidity you were used to from my history. Vitamin B1 helps, but what 
you can buy is over 1000% of the rdr, so I don't take it but once or 
twice a week. Probably my imagination but it seems to help just enough I 
note it the next day.

But I'm well aware I'll have that last, hopefully short scare at some 
point. Just because I have a pacemaker with a 10 year battery is no 
guarantee of another 10 years, there are too many other things that can 
happen too.

But I'm amazed at the docs, who approach me at my age, thinking I'm 
rusting away in a easy chair watching the soaps. I've got better things 
to do.  Today I pried the used to be blue oval on my trucks tailgate 
off, put a small wire brush in a dremel, and wore off all the foam and 
glue back down to clean paint, wiped it down with paint thinner and let 
it dry before I peeled the paper off the back of a new one and stuck it 
where the old one was. All that while I was making a realtime kernel on 
a rpi3, which because the 3 is so slow is about a 4 hour job.  Failed 
using the latest raspbian image, so I've got to round up an older image 
based on debian stretch and do it again tomorrow.  Or transplant an rpi4 
onto its mounting bolts as I have made a working realtime for it and 
have linuxcnc actually running on it.  The 3 to 4 is probably best, as 
the 4 is considerably faster but will wait until it warms up to the 70's 
again about next T or W, as thats an open garage door project just to 
get working room.

And the docs think I'm warming an easy chair watching the idiot box. 
Spit. Dee bawls me out when I tell her what I'm doing, saying I should 
act my age.  She's afraid I'll fall off a ladder or something and then 
can't care for her.

What she doesn't understand yet that is I've never grown up yet. ;-)
Too much interesting stuff to do...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 17, 2019 10:17 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6309/6809 power consumption
>
> On Thursday 17 October 2019 05:01:53 Roy Justus via Coco wrote:
> > hi  gene nice to hear from you .  As long as you are
> > still kickin' I feel there is hope for the rest of us.
>
> Yeah, I'm still kicking but gently. Supposed to get a new aortic valve
> on the 5th next. Feeling moderately decent but tire more easily in the
> meantime. You?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>