On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Pasi T Mustalahti wrote:

> Trying to run a PIC 16F84 with 2V i came to tihnk if there is any
> possibilities to make a LED to run with only one NiCd that has the output
> valtage of about 1.2 V. Led needs about 1.6 V.

  I flash a 2.0 LED on a 1.2 V battery all the time.
  The 3909 chip does the job...   And the idea behind it seems quite "Pic"able.
  Just charge a cap, and then put it in series with the battery.

> The system should not have any fancy IC's and it should fit in the size of
> half of an AAA-cell.
>
> Virtual beer for the best idea !
>
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