battery hot swap.

Depends on what your definition of "running" is.

Voltage?

Maybe just a big-valued capacitor?

Or two sets of batteries?

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Insufficient information to answer your question. What is the device?

200MA sounds like a lot of continuous current for AA batteries. Maybe you need a NICAD or NIMH rechargeable to maintain the operation while changing batteries. But then how do you know that the primary batteries are ready to go?

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Two set of batteries . Switch in the new batteries on the load, switch out the old, and then the old can be replaced while the new, secondary set are already in service. No extra cap bank circuits or storage circuits needed.

Or put a crank storage module on it between battery swaps, the crank bank would supply the needs.

tch

You can logically OR the two supplies through diodes, if you can live with the drop.

Maybe you could use primary (eg. Lithium AA) cells with a long shelf life just to supply that 200mA between changes. Usually, IME, with that kind of situation the 'controller' powers down the stuff that uses a lot of current, and just keeps enough stuff alive to maintain the state. In that case, a double-layer capacitor may be enough.

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** Not true at all.

The common Energizer E91 alkalines will run 6 to 8 hours at 200mA - depending on what end voltage is OK.

NiMH AA cells could bring that up to 12 hours or more.

** One could switch over to a 9 volt battery to hold up the supply while replacing in AAs. ** Bout the only way to do that reliably is to use NiMH AA cells and have a strict routine of replacing them with a freshly recharged set every 8 to 10 hours.

...... Phil

Or see how us big boys do it, take a look at...

PerfectDiodeForChargerIsolation.pdf

on the SED page of my website.

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Using each new battery to push out each old battery reduces hold-up time requirements.

RL

2 sets of battery holders?

Bob

Wrong buzzword, that's not a "hotswap" which has to do with plugging a circuit into live power through some form of connector. The"swap" part is close, but no cigar...

Aren't mirrors wonderful? People like you can prance and pose in front of them all day, yet you still see that you are an idiot.

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** LOL - this asinine prick sounds like a

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** Err - where did I say otherwise ???

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