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Dummy AA battery
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A dummy AA-battery allows you to 'short out' one position in a battery pack so that you can get a different voltage. For example, if you have a four-cell pack and want to power a circuit with 4.5 volts rather than 6 volts, you can replace one of the cells with a dummy battery.
**Another use:** Connect a power-supply into a battery pack. Just ensure you get your polarities right, and you probably need a few dummies for the other position(s) in your pack. *Don't use an external power-supply AND a real battery together. That's a bad idea.*
I wasn't the first one to think of this, and I found a couple of other designs on Thingiverse for it as well, but they were all missing some nuance that I wanted in my design. And given that it's just a cylinder, it's a pretty quick thing to throw together.
I made my first pass a bit better, and it works so well that I decided to share it here.
You simply string a wire through it, and loop through the holes like sewing a button and you g
**Another use:** Connect a power-supply into a battery pack. Just ensure you get your polarities right, and you probably need a few dummies for the other position(s) in your pack. *Don't use an external power-supply AND a real battery together. That's a bad idea.*
I wasn't the first one to think of this, and I found a couple of other designs on Thingiverse for it as well, but they were all missing some nuance that I wanted in my design. And given that it's just a cylinder, it's a pretty quick thing to throw together.
I made my first pass a bit better, and it works so well that I decided to share it here.
You simply string a wire through it, and loop through the holes like sewing a button and you g
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