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Electroluminescent (EL) Panel - 10cm x 10cm Aqua

Super Bright Red 5mm LED (25 pack)

MintyBoost PCB

5 Comments

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   ** awesome news!

   Comment by hahaha — February 19, 2010 @ 4:25 pm

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   “@hahaha” we edited a portion of your comment. many people have the motorola droid are looking for great charging solutions like the mintyboost. offensive comments, insults or personal attacks will be removed immediately.

   Comment by adafruit — February 19, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

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   Got a new Droid A855 recently and this is great news. The thing chews battery life like a Labrador in a shoe factory. Then again maybe I’m playing with it too much.

   Comment by W6DTW — April 25, 2010 @ 4:33 pm

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   Did some testing. Here’s what I find:

   1. Sometimes when I insert the Droid’s micro-USB the Droid doesn’t recognize the MintyBoost as a “valid” charger. Re-inserting seems to help. It may be that the Droid is drawing a LOT of current and the in-rush is dragging MintyBoost down.

   2. I also tested on an old Blackberry 8830.

   Output voltage (No load) = 5.02 VDC
   Output voltage (Droid) = 4.31 VDC
   Output voltage (RIM 8830) = 4.62 VDC

   3. I found that the LT1302 is getting a bit warm; it’s so warm that I can’t comfortably hold my finger on the case for longer than 2 seconds.

   4. The AA batteries are also getting a bit warm.

   Question: What is the max current the MintyBoost v2 is designed to comfortably source?

   …dtw

   Comment by Sparqi — April 25, 2010 @ 8:48 pm

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   Sparqi said:
   >Question: What is the max current the MintyBoost v2 is designed to comfortably source?

   Good question! I too would like to know. Anyone??

   Comment by ac — October 21, 2010 @ 3:51 pm

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