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Old 10-05-2011, 06:15 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by rebeltaz View Post
This may be a dumb question, but what is so special about these styli? I assume that they are not battery operated, so any electronic components would have to be passive - i.e. coils, resistors, capacitors...

Has anyone ever take one apart to see what makes them tick? I don't have a spare one or else I'd do it myself...
If you spent a couple of minutes searching in this forum you would find pictures of the internals as well as the drawings from the patent.

Yes, it is a tuned inductive circuit.
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