> Being tired of using the wallwarts and a regulator all the time, I was
> thinking of just getting one of the 4 AA battery packs, but this gives
me 6V
> rather than 5V.  Being the max spec is 5.5V, what have others done? Put
a
> small low current 5V regulator?  Course I could short across the last
> battery position to give me 4.5V, maybe thats the easier way of doing
it.
> Didnt see anything in the piclist archives on this so asking the list

If you want to get fancy, you could use three cells and a boost regulator
to produce 5V until the batteries are completely drained.  However, the
easiest answer is to use a low dropout regulator.


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