{"id":48314,"date":"2024-11-09T00:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48314"},"modified":"2024-11-09T00:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T00:35:40","slug":"calculators-cell-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/calculators-cell-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculators: cell replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about calculator maintenance: the tutor mentions some reassuring news.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe scientific calculator I use is typically a Casio fx-260Solar. It&#8217;s robust, but reverse-entry, so not the most popular with people born after 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe forward-entry calculators here all seem to use cells. Lately, a couple of them have been a bit sluggish. I wondered if they are just wearing out, but decided to change the cells.<\/p>\n<p>\nI was surprised to find a bit of residue on a couple of the cells. Having removed them, I wiped the metal contacts clean. Next, I replaced them with fresh cells: type LR44, as it happened. The calculators regained their liveliness:)<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about calculator maintenance: the tutor mentions some reassuring news. The scientific calculator I use is typically a Casio fx-260Solar. It&#8217;s robust, but reverse-entry, so not the most popular with people born after 1990. The forward-entry calculators here all seem &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/calculators-cell-replacement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calculators: cell replacement<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[3450,3449],"class_list":["post-48314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculator-usage","tag-changing-calculator-cells","tag-lr44"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48322,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48314\/revisions\/48322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}