<html><head><base href="x-msg://191/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Seems odd that you are getting a POR (power on reset) at 4.8V. Well within the USB low voltage spec.<div>Do you have a voltage meter? Maybe you have a bad cell or a cold joint somewhere. Older NiCd or NiMH can</div><div>develop some dendritic micro-shorts. Various ways of burning these out. Here is one way:</div><div><a href="http://hackaday.com/2008/11/27/zap-new-life-into-ni-cads/">http://hackaday.com/2008/11/27/zap-new-life-into-ni-cads/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I just used a generous overvoltage for a second.</div><div><br><div><div>On 2011-11-03, at 6:10 PM, Martin Villemaire wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">I got home last night from the lab all excited to finally be able to light up my EL wire through my "el sequencer" board. However when I plugged my battery pack in instead of the USB, the board started resetting again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I am using 4x AA rechargeable batteries rated 1.2V/2000mAh, so in theory I am giving this 4.8V of power (I think the USB is giving it 5V?). The batteries are fully charged.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Any idea what I would need to get the board to not reset when using batteries? 6x AA @ 1.2V? 8x? Or maybe my problem is something else entirely... argh...<br><br>Any help would be appreciated!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Lab mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca">Lab@artengine.ca</a><br><a href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab">http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>