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Sudden death of HP33S batteries Message #1 Posted by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) on 12 Mar 2008, 10:50 p.m. I don't recall whether this has come up before. A week or two ago, when I was using my '33S, I got a low battery warning but everything still worked. I then turned it off (I'm pretty sure). Two days ago, when I went to turn it back on, I got absolutely no indication that it was alive. Fortunately, nothing of much value was stored. Today I measured the battery voltages - they were about as low as I've ever seen for batteries! Less than 0.1 V for either, no load. I'm rather surprised that the calculator in the OFF state could pull them so low. I wonder if something might have failed internally. I don't have new ones to put in yet to check that possibility. That's tomorrow's task. So, a warning: if your '33S indicates low batteries, you better change them right away if you want to retain your work.

Re: Sudden death of HP33S batteries Message #2 Posted by Trent Moseley on 12 Mar 2008, 11:54 p.m., in response to message #1 by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) As I discussed some months ago with Luiz, my HP33S batts went completely dead with no warning indicator. tm

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