I have a simple electric current question about this ersatz workaround:
"The battery is hard to find, however many people just go into radio
shack and get a plastic battery case and put a couple of penlight
batteries in it."
OK. a typical AA battery you can pick up at the supermarket checkout
counter is 1,5 volts.
the PRAM battery on my mobo is 4.5 votls. which is 3 AA batteries,
right?
question is, when lined up, let's say if I just duct taped three of
them, side by side in a bundle, which arrangement creates 4.5 volts?
is it with the three batteries having all their positive poles facing
the same direction on one side?
or do they have to alternate positive and negative?
and----
the wire lead contacts that those poles have to touch on either side:
in creating a complete circuit, am I trying to connect the three
batteries in a snaking line, so that the wire leads come off the
beginning and end of the snake [first and last battery, one pos, one
neg)
or
am i creating a block, with one positive lead touching all three
positive poles, and one negative lead touching all three negative poles
at the same time?
(silly ascii art to illustrate:)
am I trying to do this?("block"):
l -[..............]+l
l -[..............]+l
~~~~l -[..............]+l~~~~~~~~
or this("snake")?:
~~~ -[.............]+{
} +[.............]- {
} - [.............]+~~~~~~~
appreciate your humoring my pathetic efforts to express this
janet
http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE
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