Richard,
Thanks for clarifying that you are not the obsessive card mechanic we
thought you might be.
Your last message has come through without the scrambling that was
evidently being added by your smart phone's braille keyboard app.
Regarding your comment about your own Optacon, as you probably
already know, Richard Oehm does a good job of converting Optacons to
run off AC lines directly, without a battery.
It is also possible to set your Optacon up to run without a battery
by yourself, without any tech assistance. What is required is to
replace the normal TSI unregulated AC adapter with an off-the-shelf
regulated 5 volt AC adapter. Additionally, the battery needs to be
disconnected from the Optacon, which can be done in either of two
ways. If you can remove the screws on the sides of the Optacon case
and open it up, you can easily find the battery stick and remove it.
The other method is to pop the circuit breaker that is the small
button that is next to the finger plate, just above and to the right
of the finger plate. Some of the circuit breakers buttons are easy
to pull out with a fingertip, but others may require grasping and
pulling with pliers.
The battery needs to be disconnected so that it does not drag down
the current from the AC adapter.
The AC adapter needs to be a regulated 5 volt adapter so that it does
not permit higher voltage surges to damage the Optacon circuits.
Most often, disconnecting the dead battery is the most common reason
that an old Optacon appears to be totally dead.
If anyone has questions about this, feel free to contact me or Richard Oehm.
Cordially,
Noel
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Noel H. Runyan
Phone: 1-408-866-7564
Email: Noel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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At 06:53 AM 3/19/2020, you wrote:
First, to clear up one of Noel's comments, the Richard Turner, card
shark, lives in Texas, and form all the intereviews I've seen uses
no accessible technology, especially braille.
I am on multiple email lists and this one is the only one that has
scrambled my messages.
Those scrambled messages were written on my iPhone using an app
called MBraille, that allows one to use the screen like a braille keyboard.
All the other lists run by Googlegroups and groups.io receive those
messages just fine.
I've had an OPTACON since 1973, though I seldom use it these days.
I hope to get it set to AC only and set up a place where I can use it more.
I had attempted to send the web link to the Graphity when all this
nonsense started with my scrambled messages.
I hope whomever had not heard of Orbit
Research got their answers.
I'll go back under my rock now.
Richard
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