EMAG Battery Upgrade ?

[rbreding]

Just curious if anyone has tried to replace the AAA batteries inside the battery pack with higher rated AAA ? I am currently running my WARP and Revvy off the internal EMAG battery and wanted to get some more life out of the internal one.

I really like not having to use any 9V batteries at all.


Any Ideas or suggestions ?

[Havoc_online]

I would'nt recommend it and it's really not worth it, unless you can get your hands on all the batteries you want for free...

[Tunaman]

No

They are NOT AAA batteries in there. And no combination of AAA bateries will give you the power of 18v NMH batteries. And you would need 12 AAA just to get the voltage correct, and it still would have low amperage. I say leave it alone.

[Miscue]

I tried making a ghetto dual 9v setup work... while my battery was in the mail. Not enough amps... although everything else worked fine. I was hoping Level 10 would make a difference with amp requirements... no luck.

[rbreding]

So Tunaman they aren't AAA ? They looked like the same size. Reason why I ask also, is that I found 700ma NIMH AAA batteries.


So if they aren't AAA, what are they ?

[Tunaman]

I should clarify

Originally posted by rbreding
So Tunaman they aren't AAA ? They looked like the same size. Reason why I ask also, is that I found 700ma NIMH AAA batteries.


So if they aren't AAA, what are they ?

I should have clarified more. I thought you were talking about standard AAA batteries(size wise) which are 1.5 volt and would never have enough amperage. I believe you could gang up a bunch of those NMH batteries and acheive your goal. But TK and AGD has already done that. That is what you have in there right now.

[rbreding]

So they are AAA ? I take it you don't think the extra 50ma would make any difference ? (That is if the same amount of AAA were put back in, in the same configuration.)


(Just trying to get the most out of it.....)

[Tunaman]

They should be fine. I dont know the load handling characteristics of the stock board, so dont quote me on this.

[athomas]

If you want a battery upgrade, use rechargeable lithium AAA's. No memory effect at all. You'll pay a lot for the batteries though.

[rbreding]

Where have you been able to find the AAA lithium batteries ?

Thanks

[314159]

i have heard that the memory effect in batteries is not that big of a problem. it was first observed in the batteries of satalites in orbit, with many sequiental identical charging cycles. everyday use rarely presents such a pattern.

[hitech]

Originally posted by athomas
If you want a battery upgrade, use rechargeable lithium AAA's.

Lithium AAA's won't work. They don't provide enough current (amps). That's what Tom told me when I asked him why they didn't use them in the first place.

[rbreding]

I guess at this point I really need to figure out the amperage draw of each component. Does anyone know the draw of each of the following :

EMAG
WARP (12V)
REVVY

????

Thanks all.

[hitech]

The emag can draw up to 3 amps. THAT is what needs the current capability. Everything else is minor.

[rbreding]

I assume that the 650ma batteries are being buffered by the capacitor then ?