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Subject: 
Re: HB's mA consume?
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:10:20 GMT
Original-From: 
William Bain <montanawill@yahoo^stopspammers^.com>
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If your calculations are correct, and your solar panel provides 40 mA, and you get maybe 6 hours
of strong, useful sunlight per day, then I figure you'd need eight solar panels and three battery
packs, minimum, to keep the HB running all the time, without any motors or other devices.


--- Jose Luis <jldf@mail.com> wrote:
Hi,

Today I have tested the time the HB can stay powered with his battery (just
the board, without any other device attached), its work during aprox. 8 hs,
so because the batteries I use are 600 mA, I believe that the consume of the
board is around 75 mA, can it be right? or my batteries are in bad
condition? Someone has made the same test before?

Thank You

Jose Luis



Message has 2 Replies:
  RE: HB's mA consume?
 
Thanks your answer Will, well, seems not easy to give a good use to a solar panel in the HB If I want to connect the a panel to the HB charging circuit, it must be 12V/500mA like the AC adaptor? or with less current (maybe 200 mA) , it can still use (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  RE: HB's mA consume?
 
Well, you can _greatly_ increase the efficency of the handyboard if you remove the 7805 regulator and replace it with a PowerTrends switching regulator (Digikey sells these among others). I would suggest you run three wires from the regulator to the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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