DEC RK05 Emergency Retract Batteries
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Mar 16 12:32:04 CDT 2016
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Jos Dreesen <jos.dreesen at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> ...
> Additionally the NiCd never keep charge, if , like me, the drives are only fired up once a year...
>
> I am thinking of just adding some wiring to an external battery.
I wonder if it might make sense to replace it by a capacitor. For this kind of application, the total capacity is not an issue at all, but only the available current for a fraction of a second. By that measure, it doesn't take all that large a capacitor to do as well as a battery; the difference is that the battery can sustain that current far longer -- which doesn't matter here.
paul
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