Battery questions/advice...

[ShaolinDrunkard]

I'm building psone portable right now and I was thinking of using two sony 7.2v infolithiums, because I want more battery time, and I have the room for them.

First question: do you think it would be better to hook them both to the screen and the console or should I give each one its own battery.(when I say wire them both to the screen and the console, I mean that i'll wire them in parralel so that they are both still only recieving 7.2v)

Second question: If I had a six AA battery pack, and I put six 1.2v 2300mah rechargables(=7.2v) in it, is the mah of the entire battery pack still 2300 mah or is it more? How do you calculate this if so.

Thanks ahead of time.

[marshallh]

Second question: If I had a six AA battery pack, and I put six 1.2v 2300mah rechargables(=7.2v) in it, is the mah of the entire battery pack still 2300 mah or is it more? How do you calculate this if so.

If you do that, you'll still have a 7.2V battery pack, and still 2300 mah. You'd be connecting them together in series.

[ShaolinDrunkard]

Thanks for that, how about the first question?

[marshallh]

For the first question, I would wire the batteries seperately to the screen and psone. It would be ideal to run them in parallel, but the protection circuitry in Lithium-ion batteries would have problems with this.
Since they're lithium-ion, you don't need to run them all the way down before recharging, so this would work fine.

[Zee100]

this may sound like a stupid question and it probably is but dosent the ps1 run of ac, i thought a batterys output was in dc?

this is probably really stupid to ask but i cant figure it out

[akadewboy]

There's probably an AC to DC converter inside the Playstation.

[daguuy]

it's dc