Stubby wrote:
: I've always wondered why equipment manufacturers don't put a full wave
: bridge (4 diodes) in the battery circuit so it doesn't matter how you
: insert the batteries (or the polarity of a charger brick).

Voltage drop. Even low-voltage schottky diodes will drop 0.3-0.4V. That's
like throwing away 33% of your 1.2v battery capacity.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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