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This may be naive, but would it be possible for the voltage booster to only start 'boosting' after the battery falls under a certain voltage threshold? That wou

This may be naive, but would it be possible for the voltage booster to only start 'boosting' after the battery falls under a certain voltage threshold? That would be seem to solve both of your concerns.

tlrobinson 11y ago
But then you would of course need circuitry to measure the voltage and switch the booster on, and it wouldn't know what the correct threshold is.
3JPLW 11y ago
The trouble is that the battery doesn't know the voltage requirements of the device it's powering. Should it start boosting at 1.4V? Or 1.25V? I have a hunch that it already does this for voltages near 1.5. The trouble is determining where you draw the line.
- wodenokoto 11y ago
  That's easy. You license the batteriser technology to the gadget creators, they build it into their gadget and set the limit!
  - granos 11y ago
    But they don't control the IP for the actual boost circuitry. Thats trivially easy to do. And from the comments in this thread it seems like lots of electronics already do it.
- gfsn54nsf 11y ago
  Simple: Use the device until the batteries fail, then slip on the Batterizer[TM] and use it some more.