> On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Jos Dreesen <jos.dree...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> ...
> Additionally the NiCd never keep charge, if , like me, the drives are only
> fired up once a year...
>
> I am thinking of just adding some wiring to an external battery.
I wonder if it might make sense to replace it by a capacitor. For this kind of
application, the total capacity is not an issue at all, but only the available
current for a fraction of a second. By that measure, it doesn't take all that
large a capacitor to do as well as a battery; the difference is that the
battery can sustain that current far longer -- which doesn't matter here.
paul
