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Re: battery sled for Sharp 722

Subject: Re: battery sled for Sharp 722
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:11 am (PDT)
At 5:49 PM -0700 7/11/06, Dan Dugan wrote:
>Early August I'm going to hike and record two days in Haleakala
>National Park. I won't be able to charge, so I want to make battery
>sleds for my good old Sharp 722s.
>
>The external power supplies are rated at 5V, and they deliver 6V with
>no load. They rate the output of their car powering adaptor at 4.5V.
>I'm presuming a holder with four alkaline D-cells (6V) would be
>appropriate, and should run a machine for days.
>
>Anybody have experience with this?
>
>-Dan
>

4 X 1.5 because the low voltage shut-down on the DC input may not
prompt the usual data saving routine? Test it with 4 old D cells
running it till auto shut down?  Rob D.
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