Sirius satellite radio and low voltage
I bought my Sirius radio as part of the Starmate boom box package for camping in places so remote that regular radio was spotty or non-existent. I was puzzled to discover that the dc power (cigarette...
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Freebooter wrote:
I was puzzled to discover that the dc power (cigarette lighter) adapter for the radio did not fit the Starmate (socket too deep).
The OP was not clear as to what the "Starmate" package is/was.
Since the Sirius battery plug did not fit the Starmate socket, it sounds like the radio MAY NOT have been designed to go with, and be powered by, the constantly declining voltage from D cells under use. Hence a lack of an Einstein IQ may have nothing to do with it ... perhaps some/all Sirius circuits indeed do not like to be powered too long from batteries not constantly pumped up by an alternator kept constantly spinning by an internal combustion engine.
(Besides ... Einstein was a theoretical physicist - not an integrated circuit designer. Einstein was even perplexed by some theoretical physics - as his only very non-scientific explanation for one particular physics phenomenon was to call it "spooky".)
