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    Batteries again, sorry —John Hatton
   This should be my last question in terms of batteries. Assuming that I have nicads powering the HB, what effect would there be if, when the batteries were getting low, I connected a fully charged battery pack (e.g. containing the nimh cells) into (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Batteries again, sorry —Fred G. Martin
   you're almost right. if you plugged a nimh pack into the HB's charge jack, the external pack would charge the internal batteries. but it would not power the board significantly. this is because the HB's charge jack includes a current-limit resistor (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 

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