Supercap definitely won't work in a 200. Just disassembled mine to finally put a NiCd backup battery back in and make the conversion to rechargeable AA batteries .The supercaps do work in my 102 and 8201.
Kurt On Mon, Apr 30, 2018, at 5:26 PM, John Gardner wrote: > I did'nt change anything. Note, however, that the 8201a is similar> > but not identical to the 100/102. It's probably worth comparing the > > schematics before doing the modification. Kurt, IIRC, had some > > issues with dropping a supercap into a 200... > > On 4/30/18, Jeffrey Birt <bir...@soigeneris.com> wrote: >> Did you need to replace any part of the charging circuitry? I >> suspect not as>> it was the NiCad was only a 50mah part and if it was charge >> as C/10 >> then any>> super cap could handle the 5ma with no issues (I'm guessing). >> >> Jeff >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of John >> Gardner>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 4:50 PM >> To: m...@bitchin100.com >> Subject: Re: [M100] New user, AA battery leakage >> >> I replaced my two 8201a NiCds with supercaps 6-7 years ago. >> >> It just works, so far. >> >> >> >>
