"John Rumm" wrote in message
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BigWallop wrote:

He needs to know how the DIP switches are configured in each detector to
give them a unique number on the control panel. But I'm now tearing my
hair
out trying to get it through to him. HELP !!!

I would go for either printing up a little booklet of numbers 0 to 1023
and the associated switch positions, or finding something programmable
(like an old Psion series 3, or even one of those nice new Java
compatible mobile phones) and knocking up a little program to do the
conversion for him on the fly with a pictorial output.

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Cheers,

John.


But that's the rub John. He has a calculator that converts decimal to
binary for him, and he knows how to work it, but he can't grasp that the
number showing on the screen is the positions the switches should be in.
It's is something that is getting to him, that doesn't want, or can't, see
the translation. Weird ! :-))


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