On 30/01/18 16:49, whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:08:26 UTC, Jim wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:41:08 +0000, Clive Arthur
wrote:

On 28/01/2018 11:55, Jim wrote:


Trying to find similar in the UK: anyone any idea if anyone sells them - other
than ebay plus postage of course

http://uk.farnell.com/keystone/96/pr...-9v/dp/1716316

Just solder a wire across the terminals and cut it when you want to use
the battery. Easy.


I tried that: the wire got very hot and the battery did not work well
afterwards.

You soldered the wire the wrong way around ;-)

I did that with a shottky diode across a DC motor. It got hot enough to
unsolder itself.

It survived.


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