shelf life of ARC4+

[SJACKAL]

So I will use it every once in a while to keep it from falling sick.

 

[X33]

Thanks, thats what I wanted to know. Occasional switching on of my "backup" light will keep it sweet till the 123nuke battery drop in module becomes available. Should be a real museum piece by then.

 

[Neg2LED]

hehehehe!

neg

 

[NewBie]

http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA181882?spacedec=readersChoice

Interesting read on flash cells:
http://www.gpa.etsmtl.ca/cours/gpa325/Documents/Document1.pdf



DRAM failures:

http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/radiationlab/publications/SEU_at_Ground_Level.pdf

Flash based failures:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abs_free.jsp?arNumber=659053

http://parts.jpl.nasa.gov/docs/SEU_Flash-97.pdf


EEPROM failures:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=23&q=http://www.activetechnologies.it/000download/papers/IEEETransNucSc2001.pdf&e=1102

Alot of radiation still makes it to sea level, if you look deep enough, you'll find them doing alot of work for flash and DRAM packaging, as even the packaging emits low level radiation....

 

[X33]

So much info. Cheers NewBie. Will take ages to read all that. When am I gonna find time to trawl the BST? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif