Too_Many_Tools wrote:

Thanks for the response.

I always keep batteries separate...it is the only way to be sure that
you will not have damage from leakage.

Does anyone have any reviews for sensitivity, power consumption,
operating temperature range....again I am looking for something that
can be used in an emergency sense that would be easy on the batteries
and be rugged from an enviromental sense.

Thanks

TMT

Hi Too...

Just a couple of thoughts, if I may?

Assuming that you're preparing for the kinds of emergencies that the
USA has had a few of recently, if it were me I'd be tempted to stay
away from LCD's.

Think I'd like to get ahold of one of those little 5 inch sets of the
type that walmart sells for about 19 dollars (canadian). Emergency's
don't need large screens (power consuming), not colour (power
consuming), nor any of the other niceties. Information is all, isn't it?

And - those little sets also have built in am/fm radios. Far less
power conumption (assuming hydro is gone) and far far more to
choose from. Thinking that the other new "necessities" like cable
and satellite may be gone, you'd have at best perhaps half a dozen tv
stations in a large city; whereas there might be dozens of am and fm
stations within earshot. Surely more radio would survive. And
information is all you need.

And when and if power does become precious, you can even plug in a
little crystal earplug, reducing battery demand to almost nothing.

Finally, I'd get me two or three sets of the best alkalines I could
find; the freshest dated I could find. Leave them in the original
package still sealed so there's no chance that the kids will have
borrowed them for their infernal cd players and put 'em back half
dead. Replace them all once every year or two with new ones, give the
older ones to the teens

Just an old guy in Canada thinking out loud.

Ken