I'm on thin ice with that question, so all I can say is it is connected, but not in the normal way. All the battery energy is dissipated as heat, not KE.
Hoyt -----Original Message----- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson [mailto:svj.orionwo...@gmail.com] Can it be conclusively proven (at least beyond a reasonable amount of doubt) that the battery is in no way connected to the actual running of the ORBO device?