Hi Chris, Err, Umm, how about putting the charger/transmitter in a pad that goes under a rug by the toilet? pretty much everyone stops by once in awhile, and the distance is controlled and pretty short, and plenty of time. alice > Dear all, > > Sorry to keep asking questions, but I'm trying to kill several birds > with one stone. I want to sense proximity to a receiver so that I can > transmit telemetry data (hence the reason I asked about RFID tags), and > also to charge the battery inductively. I wonder if anyone has any tips > on the latter? The battery is very low capacity (20mA 3V) Vanadium > Pentoxide Lithium. > > Thanks in anticipation, > > Chris > -- > Dr. Chris Kirtley MD PhD > Associate Professor > HomeCare Technologies for the 21st Century (Whitaker Foundation) > NIDRR Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on TeleRehabilitation > Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Pangborn 105B > Catholic University of America > 620 Michigan Ave NE > Washington, DC 20064 > Tel. 202-319-6247, fax 202-319-4287 > Email: kirtley@cua.edu > http://engineering.cua.edu/biomedical > > Clinical Gait Analysis: http://guardian.curtin.edu.au/cga > Send subscribe/unsubscribe to listproc@info.curtin.edu.au > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:","[SX]:","[AVR]:" =uP ONLY! "[EE]:","[OT]:" =Other "[BUY]:","[AD]:" =Ads