Extended battery pack

[Al Johnson]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008, -stacy wrote:
> The Linear Technology step up voltage converter is supposed to be able
> to do 600mA, it is the AA cells that seem to have a problem with
> supplying 500mA. They get a little toasty :-). The one I built to use D
> cells doesn't seem to have any issues with supplying 500mA.

Not using the MAX756 any more then. That could only hit 400mA at 5V from a 3V 
supply according to the datasheet.