<div dir="ltr"><div>no, ~5.6v (because AAs run hot) down to 5v. <br><br></div>that's a LM2596 switching regulator board; Vin > Vout only. I have 10 of them now. Supposedly something like 95% efficient. That's an 8-cell battery pack I should load it up and give it another test.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:50 PM, John Foege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.foege@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.foege@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>4 AAs in series? 5.2V to 12V DC-DC regulator?</p>
<p>Can you set it for 1.3V to 13V and run the batts in parallel?</p>
<p>I'm assuming this doesn't make any difference in run-time due to either having a 1800 mAh 5.2V cell or a 1.3V 7200 mAh cell with the converter...unless I'm having a massive brain fart...</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Oct 10, 2013 12:04 AM, "David McKenzie" <<a href="mailto:k1fsy@vhfwiki.com" target="_blank">k1fsy@vhfwiki.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p dir="ltr">Got the switching regulator modules from China. It ran for 3 mind on those 4 nearly dead AAs :)</p>
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