Snake is the way to get 4.5 volts.
Another way to think of it: If the 3 batteries are placed in a single line.
Positive to negative to positive, etc
Thus:
-[.............]+-[..............]+-[..............]+ = 4.5 volts
flawed jai wrote:
> I have a simple electric current question about this ersatz workaround:
> "The battery is hard to find, however many people just go into radio
> shack and get a plastic battery case and put a couple of penlight
> batteries in it."
> OK. a typical AA battery you can pick up at the supermarket checkout
> counter is 1,5 volts.
> the PRAM battery on my mobo is 4.5 votls. which is 3 AA batteries,
> right?
>
> question is, when lined up, let's say if I just duct taped three of
> them, side by side in a bundle, which arrangement creates 4.5 volts?
> is it with the three batteries having all their positive poles facing
> the same direction on one side?
> or do they have to alternate positive and negative?
>
> and----
> the wire lead contacts that those poles have to touch on either side:
> in creating a complete circuit, am I trying to connect the three
> batteries in a snaking line, so that the wire leads come off the
> beginning and end of the snake [first and last battery, one pos, one
> neg)
>
> or
> am i creating a block, with one positive lead touching all three
> positive poles, and one negative lead touching all three negative poles
> at the same time?
>
> (silly ascii art to illustrate:)
>
> am I trying to do this?("block"):
>
> l -[..............]+l
> l -[..............]+l
> ~~~~l -[..............]+l~~~~~~~~
>
>
> or this("snake")?:
>
> ~~~ -[.............]+{
> } +[.............]- {
> } - [.............]+~~~~~~~
>
>
> appreciate your humoring my pathetic efforts to express this
>
> janet
>
>
> http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE
>
>
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