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[Katie Wasserman]

(06-05-2015 07:16 PM)Dave Shaffer Wrote:  Here's yet some more info on this. It's a bit breathless, but more background.

I suspect this is basically a joule thief in a thinned down sleeve. I see no reason why it shouldn't work, although not maybe quite a well as claimed.

I'm sure you're right, I'm equally sure that you'll never see anywhere near what they claim. I find the most interesting thing about this is being able to squeeze any useful circuitry into something 0.1mm. I suspect this is just a conductor and the components are all at one end of the device making it likely too long for certain applications. Still it might be useful in older or poorly designed electronic devices that don't work below 1.3 volts per cell. I also wonder what the quiescent current draw of this thing is -- if it's more than a few microamps that would make it pretty useless.



p.s. The patent it says "The height increase of the battery due to the sleeve is about 1 mm". That's not too bad, but will still be a problem in some devices.