gonk,

Thanks for the comments. You are probably right about the display light situation and I'm going to try setting the display status via the menu option. However, this doesn't really address the more important question I posed. Does anyone know whether the SMS-1 retains the calibration parameters during such a power outage? I'm not talking about turning the power off normally, but one of those momentary things that happens during thunderstorms (we had another one this evening.) Obviously the SMS-1 retains calibration settings during normal power ON/OFF cycles (or you would have to recalibrate every time you powered down) but I'm wondering if the momentary loss of power - which is causing my display to act irratically by turning "on" during such an incident - might also affect the calibration settings in memory.

Anyone want to take a stab at this?


Thanks.