Battery switching without tears

On 4/13/20 11:25 PM, Andy Blackburn wrote:
I used Shottky diodes plus power resistors plus capacitors. I'm no EE but I took enough circuits courses to handle this problem. The Shottky diodes keep the batteries from cross-discharging each other, the capacitors keep the instruments powered when the switch is disconnected from battery 1 and before it is connected to battery 2 and the resistors keep the capacitors from drawing too much current when you power them up since they make the circuit (even with the diodes) look like a direct short initially.

Andy

On Monday, April 13, 2020 at 1:08:16 PM UTC-7, kinsell wrote:
That could be a significant voltage drop across the resistors. I'd use
a couple power Schottky diodes instead.

You might want to take a serious look at the IR drop across the
resistors. You have a complex solution to a simple problem that could
actually be causing more problems than it solves.