Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-22 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 21. November 2008 schrieb Tobias Diedrich: Cédric Berger wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 17:24, DJDAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cédric Berger ha scritto: I did not have a look at neo's circuitry. But whatever the method it uses, it cannot force 1A if 1A is not available (wall

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, September 29, 2008 a las 10:17:49AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello Stacy, I've stumbled over your page http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/mintyboost/ and as an owner of the

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Tilman Baumann
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello Stacy, I've stumbled over your page http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/mintyboost/ and as an owner of the FreeRunner I will build this nice box; thanks for your pioneer work on this;

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 01:47:43PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello Stacy, I've stumbled over your page http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/mintyboost/ and as

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Tilman Baumann
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 01:47:43PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello Stacy, I've stumbled over your page

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 02:04:22PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 01:47:43PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Tilman Baumann
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 02:04:22PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, November 20, 2008 a las 01:47:43PM +0100, Tilman Baumann escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Cédric Berger
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 15:14, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding the 47k resistor to the minty boost so that the Freerunner fast charges at 1A is a poor idea for a couple reasons, the biggest one being that the minty boost can't supply 1A the max is 600mA. as far as I

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Tilman Baumann
Cédric Berger wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 15:14, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding the 47k resistor to the minty boost so that the Freerunner fast charges at 1A is a poor idea for a couple reasons, the biggest one being that the minty boost can't supply 1A the max is

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread -stacy
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, A colleague of me was kind enough to build that MintyBoost for me. And it is working fine. I'm attaching a screen shoot of it using 'battery.py'; some questions remain: - sometimes you can hear in the MintyBoost box (not in the FR) some kind of buzzing,

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Cédric Berger
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 16:10, Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cédric Berger wrote: I am not an electronician but would not it be possible to have a little circuit in the minty boost limiting current to 500mA (or other value), even though the freerunner tries to get 1A ? Nope.

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread DJDAS
Cédric Berger ha scritto: I did not have a look at neo's circuitry. But whatever the method it uses, it cannot force 1A if 1A is not available (wall charger unplugged from the wall won't give 1A :-p ) ? Uhm...not exactly true... Ohm Law says: V = R * I - I = V/R, and if R-0 then I-oo In

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Cédric Berger
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 17:24, DJDAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cédric Berger ha scritto: I did not have a look at neo's circuitry. But whatever the method it uses, it cannot force 1A if 1A is not available (wall charger unplugged from the wall won't give 1A :-p ) ? Uhm...not exactly true...

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Cédric Berger wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 17:24, DJDAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cédric Berger ha scritto: I did not have a look at neo's circuitry. But whatever the method it uses, it cannot force 1A if 1A is not available (wall charger unplugged from the wall won't give 1A :-p ) ?

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-09-30 Thread -stacy
Matthias Apitz wrote: It seems that here in Germany they don't sell this type of Chewing Gum boxes, I had a hard time finding it locally as well. I finally mail ordered a ten pack. On the plus side, the gum doesn't stick to my dental work, so I can actually chew the stuff. the boxes

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-09-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello Stacy, I've stumbled over your page http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/mintyboost/ and as an owner of the FreeRunner I will build this nice box; thanks for your pioneer work on this; ... It seems that

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-09-29 Thread Fox Mulder
Why not just measure the batteries yourself? It's just two AA cells where one cell is 50mm height and 14mm diameter. Than you add the space you need for the little step-up converter and that's all. Ciao, Rainer Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, September 22, 2008 a las 11:17:58PM

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-09-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, September 29, 2008 a las 11:11:04AM +0200, Fox Mulder escribió: Why not just measure the batteries yourself? It's just two AA cells where one cell is 50mm height and 14mm diameter. Than you add the space you need for the little step-up converter and that's all. Ofc I can