Am 29.10.2010 um 19:05 schrieb Benjamin Deering: > Hello, > > I finished installing capacitors as replacements for the dead backup > batteries in my Freerunners today at lunch. They seem to be working, > though I've only tried removing the main battery for under a minute so > far. Someone on the GTA-02-core list said a 220uf capacitor would power > the RTC for 2 minutes. If that is correct, the .07f caps I used should > work for about 10 hours.
Please report some test results. > The parts I got from digikey weren't an exact fit, but I was able to > make them work. Looks interesting. Do you have the exact order num...@digikey? > Be sure to wear safety glasses if you try this, I had one of the old > batteries explode when I was removing it. Oops! So it was not really dead an had enough energy inside. Maybe, just the voltage was too low to run the RTC? > Pictures: http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=album&id=20 Good work! Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
