50g Random Turn ON

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(12-04-2016 04:52 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  Has anyone had any problem with alarms not working on the 50g? My 41cx has been my alarm clock for 30 years and never failed. I've never tried it on my 50g though.

My experience is that when the 50g is off when alarms come due, they intermittently fail to work properly. It may turn on and activate the alarm on time, or it will do so extremely late, or it won't do it at all, with no apparent pattern.

One way to hit this seems to be to run a program to set up a long sequence of alarms every X minutes, where X is longer than the idle turn-off period set in TOFF, then let the calculator set. Sooner or later, it will stop turning itself on to signal the alarms, even when there are due alarms remaining, and only upon manual turn-on will the tardy alarms immediately activate after the fact.