"Lee Blaver" wrote in message
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Mike Barnes wrote:


I am trying to teach a young lad how to set up binary addressable fire
alarm
systems and no matter how I explain it, or how much I write it down or
draw
it for him, he just can't seem to grasp the concept.
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I don't know how many bits you're talking about, but consider supplying
him with a simple look-up table rather than trying to teach him the
system.


I use a binary/hex/decimal calculator myself, whilst I know how to do
the conversions I just can't be bothered with it

Lee


I've given him a calculator to use when he needs to, and he knows how to
convert the decimal number into binary on it. But then he tells me it gets
him even more confused because the number that comes up on the screen is
just 1's and 0's and he doesn't know how to make the DIP switches look the
same as them.

I've even explained that when it shows a 1 it means it's ON, and similarly
when O it is OFF, but then he'll either turn it upside down or make a
balustrade of swapping it over to the switches themselves.

I'm now down to only a couple of hairs in my head, so to stop me going bald,
I think I'll leave him in the workshop. :-))


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