AA and AAA cells are usually sold in pairs or more anyway. (at least in NZ)
RP

On 07/03/07, Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com> wrote:
> Bob Axtell wrote:
> > Probably only ONE NiMH AA would be needed, methinks.
>
> That would make the converter difficult because of the low voltage going in.
> With two primary AA cells you can rely on 2.0V before it's OK to declare the
> cells dead and give up.  With NiMH you should work down to 900mV per cell.
> Even if you treat them like primary cells, just 1V is difficult to work with
> and use it efficiently.  One cell also gets you half the capacity.  It would
> be a lot easier to tell people they have to replace the batteries every
> 200-500 programming operations, and I don't see that as a marketing problem.
>
> > --- and Olin, Microchip loves you. They would get behind it if it were
> > in a nice case.
> > Remember whereas we are engineering types, they are marketing types. Ask
> > 'em if there
> > is a market, and see what _they_ say. You will be surprised.
>
> I have in the past asked them about what they would want in a programmer and
> if there was any interest in a USBProg-like device designed externally to
> their specs.  It has never met with any interest.  Perhaps it might be
> different now that someone can actually hold a USBProg in their hands, but I
> rather doubt it.  They have a full time professional tools group that does
> these things.
>
>
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