Does the fact that the Sanyo Japan site (like many Japanese sites) has English text on it mean that the Japanese are better educated than us, or is it more like "our product name is in English, so it must be cool"?
So it will supply 5 volts for two hours in Japan in August. What kind of performance can we expect in the US in March. Also, same question, but add in the fact there is a train leaving Intercourse PA heading west at 16mph.
"Sanyo's press release says it'll switch modes when it's turned horizontal, mentioning that there's some kind of accelerometer, although it seems like a simple activate-on-disconnect system would work just fine."
If it were a disconnect-activated thing, there's a couple ways of doing it - the wrong way, which would be to have it detect an absence of induction - which would default to flashlight mode in the event of an outage - or the right way, using a magnet and a hall effect sensor.
For the way they say it actually will be, you don't really need an accelerometer, just a mercury switch.
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If it were a disconnect-activated thing, there's a couple ways of doing it - the wrong way, which would be to have it detect an absence of induction - which would default to flashlight mode in the event of an outage - or the right way, using a magnet and a hall effect sensor.
For the way they say it actually will be, you don't really need an accelerometer, just a mercury switch.