Hi > On Mar 7, 2018, at 6:33 PM, Mike Cook <michael.c...@sfr.fr> wrote: > > >> Le 7 mars 2018 à 11:10, Attila Kinali <att...@kinali.ch> a écrit : >> >> On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:57:32 -0500 >> Bob kb8tq <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: >> >>> Assuming you are going to run it off a battery. What’s the self discharge >>> rate on a reasonable battery? >> >> With supply currents below 100nA you can assume that you are likely >> to be limited by the self-discharge using coin sized LiMnO2 cells >> (e.g. a CR2032 is specced in the order of 100-300nA self-discharge). >> For the smaller cells, you have to check which one is larger, but >> they are of the same order of magnitude. > > This is interesting. When you talk of self discharge, is there any way of > harnessing that. Is that what the chip manufactures are doing?
Self discharge = current flowing through the internal elements of the cell (plus other long term degradation effects). Bob > >> >> >> Attila Kinali >> -- >> It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All >> the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no >> use without that foundation. >> -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who > have not got it. » > George Bernard Shaw > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.